are all divine. 134
Sec. 5. What objections may be made to this conclusion. 135
Sec. 6. Typical beauty may be aesthetically pursued. Instances. 135
Sec. 7. How interrupted by false feeling. 136
Sec. 8. Greatness and truth are sometimes by the Deity sustained and
spoken in and through evil men. 137
Sec. 9. The second objection arising from the coldness of Christian
men to external beauty. 138
Sec. 10. Reasons for this coldness in the anxieties of the world. These
anxieties overwrought and criminal. 139
Sec. 11. Evil consequences of such coldness. 140
Sec. 12. Theoria the service of Heaven. 140
SECTION II.
OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY.
CHAPTER I.--Of the Three Forms of Imagination.
Sec. 1. A partial examination only of the imagination is to be
attempted. 142
Sec. 2. The works of the metaphysicians how nugatory with respect
to this faculty. 143
Sec. 3. The definition of D. Stewart, how inadequate. 143
Sec. 4. This instance nugatory. 144
Sec. 5. Various instances. 145
Sec. 6. The three operations of the imagination. Penetrative,
associative, contemplative. 146
CHAPTER II.--Of Imagination Associative.
Sec. 1. Of simple conception. 147
Sec. 2. How connected with verbal knowledge. 148
Sec. 3. How used in composition. 148
Sec. 4. Characteristics of composition. 149
Sec. 5. What powers are implied by it. The first of the three
functions of fancy. 150
Sec. 6. Imagination not yet manifested. 150
Sec. 7. Imagination is the correlative conception of imperfect
component parts. 151
Sec. 8. Material ana
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