night's lodging he expected, and that which
befitted him.

[71] I do not mean to withdraw the praise I have given, and shall
always be willing to give such pictures as the Old Shepherd's Chief
Mourner, and to all in which the character and inner life of animals
are developed. But all lovers of art must regret to find Mr.
Landseer wasting his energies on such inanities as the "Shoeing,"
and sacrificing color, expression, and action, to an imitation of
glossy hide.

[72] I have not brought forward any instances of the imaginative
power in architecture, as my object is not at present to exhibit its
operation in all matter, but only to define its essence; but it may
be well to note, in our own new houses of Parliament, how far a
building approved by a committee of Taste, may proceed without
manifestation either of imagination or composition; it remains to be
seen how far the towers may redeem it; and I allude to it at present
unwillingly, and only in the desire of influencing, so far as I may,
those who have the power to prevent the adoption of a design for a
bridge to take place of Westminster, which was exhibited in 1844 at
the Royal Academy, professing to be in harmony with the new
building, but which was fit only to carry a railroad over a canal.

[73] Comp. Ch. V. Sec. 5.

[74] All the clouds of Tintoret are sublime; the worst that I know
in art are Correggio's, especially in the Madonna della Scudella,
and Dome of Parma.

CHAPTER V.

OF THE SUPERHUMAN IDEAL.

Sec. 1. The subject is not to be here treated in detail.

In our investigation in the first section of the laws of beauty, we
confined ourselves to the observation of lower nature, or of humanity.
We were prevented from proceeding to deduce conclusions respecting
divine ideality by our not having then established any principles
respecting the imaginative faculty, by which, under the discipline of
the theoretic, such ideality is conceived. I had purposed to conclude
the present section by a careful examination of this subject; but as
this is evidently foreign to the matter immediately under discussion,
and involves questions of great intricacy respecting the development of
mind among those pagan nations who are supposed to have produced high
examples of spiritual ideality, I believe it will be better to dela