animal. 101
Sec. 2. The two senses of the word "ideal." Either it refers to
action of the imagination. 102
Sec. 3. Or to perfection of type. 103
Sec. 4. This last sense how inaccurate, yet to be retained. 103
Sec. 5. Of Ideal form. First, in the lower animals. 104
Sec. 6. In what consistent. 104
Sec. 7. Ideal form in vegetables. 105
Sec. 8. The difference of position between plants and animals. 105
Sec. 9. Admits of variety in the ideal of the former. 106
Sec. 10. Ideal form in vegetables destroyed by cultivation. 107
Sec. 11. Instance in the Soldanella and Ranunculus. 108
Sec. 12. The beauty of repose and felicity, how consistent with such
ideal. 108
Sec. 13. The ideality of Art. 109
Sec. 14. How connected with the imaginative faculties. 109
Sec. 15. Ideality, how belonging to ages and conditions. 110

CHAPTER XIV.--Of Vital Beauty:--Thirdly, in Man.

Sec. 1. Condition of the human creature entirely different from that
of the lower animals. 111
Sec. 2. What room here for idealization. 111
Sec. 3. How the conception of the bodily ideal is reached. 112
Sec. 4. Modifications of the bodily ideal owing to influence of mind.
First, of intellect. 113
Sec. 5. Secondly, of the moral feelings. 113
Sec. 6. What beauty is bestowed by them. 115
Sec. 7. How the soul culture interferes harmfully with the bodily
ideal. 115
Sec. 8. The inconsistency among the effects of the mental virtues on
the form. 116
Sec. 9. Is a sign of God's kind purpose towards the race. 116
Sec. 10. Consequent separation and difference of ideals. 117
Sec. 11. The _effects_ of the Adamite curse are to be
di