200
Sec. 8. The action of contemplative imagination is not to be expressed
by art. 201
Sec. 9. Except under narrow limits.--1st. Abstract rendering of
form without color. 201
Sec. 10. Of color without form. 202
Sec. 11. Or of both without texture. 202
Sec. 12. Abstraction or typical representation of animal form. 203
Sec. 13. Either when it is symbolically used. 204
Sec. 14. Or in architectural decoration. 205
Sec. 15. Exception in delicate and superimposed ornament. 206
Sec. 16. Abstraction necessary from imperfection of materials. 206
Sec. 17. Abstractions of things capable of varied accident are not
imaginative. 207
Sec. 18. Yet sometimes valuable. 207
Sec. 19. Exaggeration. Its laws and limits. First, in scale of
representation. 208
Sec. 20. Secondly, of things capable of variety of scale. 209
Sec. 21. Thirdly, necessary in expression of characteristic features on
diminished scale. 210
Sec. 22. Recapitulation. 211

CHAPTER V.--Of the Superhuman Ideal.

Sec. 1. The subject is not to be here treated in detail. 212
Sec. 2. The conceivable modes of manifestation of Spiritual Beings
are four. 212
Sec. 3. And these are in or through creature forms familiar to us. 213
Sec. 4. Supernatural character may be impressed on these either by
phenomena inconsistent with their common nature (compare
Chap. iv. Sec. 16). 213
Sec. 5. Or by inherent Dignity. 213
Sec. 6. 1st. Of the expression of inspiration. 214
Sec. 7. No representation of that which is more than creature is
possible. 215
Sec. 8. Supernatural character expressed by modification of