Type of
Divine Incomprehensibility.
Sec. 1. Impossibility of adequately treating the subject. 38
Sec. 2. With what simplicity of feeling to be approached. 38
Sec. 3. The child instinct respecting space. 39
Sec. 4. Continued in after life. 40
Sec. 5. Whereto this instinct is traceable. 40
Sec. 6. Infinity how necessary in art. 41
Sec. 7. Conditions of its necessity. 42
Sec. 8. And connected analogies. 42
Sec. 9. How the dignity of treatment is proportioned to the expression
of infinity. 43
Sec. 10. Examples among the Southern schools. 44
Sec. 11. Among the Venetians. 44
Sec. 12. Among the painters of landscape. 45
Sec. 13. Other modes in which the power of infinity is felt. 45
Sec. 14. The beauty of curvature. 46
Sec. 15. How constant in external nature. 46
Sec. 16. The beauty of gradation. 47
Sec. 17. How found in nature. 47
Sec. 18. How necessary in Art. 48
Sec. 19. Infinity not rightly implied by vastness. 49
CHAPTER VI.--Of Unity, or the Type of the Divine Comprehensiveness.
Sec. 1. The general conception of divine Unity. 50
Sec. 2. The glory of all things is their Unity. 50
Sec. 3. The several kinds of unity. Subjectional. Original. Of
sequence, and of membership. 51
Sec. 4 Unity of membership. How secured. 52
Sec. 5. Variety. Why required. 53
Sec. 6. Change, and its influence on beauty. 54
Sec. 7. The love of change. How morbid and evil. 55
Sec. 8. The conducing of variety towards unity of subjection. 55
Sec. 9. And towards unity of sequence. 57
Sec. 10. The nature of pro
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