se. 22
Sec. 7. How rewarded. 23
Sec. 8. Especially with respect to ideas of beauty. 23
Sec. 9. Errors induced by the power of habit. 24
Sec. 10. The necessity of submission in early stages of judgment. 24
Sec. 11. The large scope of matured judgment. 25
Sec. 12. How distinguishable from false taste. 25
Sec. 13. The danger of a spirit of choice. 26
Sec. 14. And criminality. 27
Sec. 15. How certain conclusions respecting beauty are by reason
demonstrable. 27
Sec. 16. With what liabilities to error. 28
Sec. 17. The term "beauty" how limitable in the outset. Divided
into typical and vital. 28
CHAPTER IV.--Of False Opinions held concerning Beauty.
Sec. 1. Of the false opinion that truth is beauty, and vice versa. 30
Sec. 2. Of the false opinion that beauty is usefulness. Compare
Chap. xii. Sec. 5. 31
Sec. 3. Of the false opinion that beauty results from custom. Compare
Chap. vi. Sec. 1. 31
Sec. 4. The twofold operation of custom. It deadens sensation, but
confirms affection. 31
Sec. 5. But never either creates or destroys the essence of beauty. 32
Sec. 6. Instances. 32
Sec. 7. Of the false opinion that beauty depends on the association of
ideas. 33
Sec. 8. Association. Is, 1st, rational. It is of no efficiency as a
cause of beauty. 33
Sec. 9. Association accidental. The extent of its influence. 34
Sec. 10. The dignity of its function. 35
Sec. 11. How it is connected with impressions of beauty. 36
Sec. 12. And what caution it renders necessary in the examination of
them. 36
CHAPTER V.--Of Typical Beauty:--First, of Infinity, or the
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