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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER iii The final cause of the difference between

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT

the Passions belonging to self-preser-

EDITION

vation, and those which regard the Son

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL So- ciety of the sexes

49
CIETY: OR, A VIEW OF THE MISE-

or Beauty

ib,
RIES AND EVILS ARISING TO MAN Society and Solitude

60
KIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF A

Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition ib.
TIFICIAL SOCIETY
ix Sympathy

ib.

A PAILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE The effects of Sympathy in the distresses

ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUB-

of others

51

LIME AND BEAUTIFUL; WITH AN

Of the effects of Tragedy

ib.

INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE CONCERN- Imitation

52
ING TASTE
89 Ambition

ib.

Preface

34 Recapitulation

63

Introduction. On Taste

37 The Conclusion

ib.

ii

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Infinity in pleasing Objects
62 Taste and Smell

80
Difficulty

ib. The Sublime and Beautiful compared ib.
Magnificence

63

Light

ib.

PART IV.

Light in Building

64

of the efficient cause of the Sublime and

Colour considered as productive of the

Beautiful

ib.

Sublime

ih.

Association

81

Sound and Loudness

ib,

Cause of pain and Fear

ib.

Suddenness

65

Continued

82

Intermitting

ib.

How the Sublime is produced

ib.

The Cries of Animals

ib.

How Pain can be a cause of Delight 83

Smell and Taste. Bitters and Stenches ib.
Feeling. Pain

Exercise necessary for the finer Organs ib.

66

Why things not dangerous sometimes

produco a passion like Terrour ib.

PART III.

Why visual objects of great dimensions

are Sublime

84

of Beauty

66 Unity, why requisite to Vastness ib.

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in The artificial Infinite

85

Vegetables

67

The vibrations must be similar

ib.

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in

The effects of succession in visual objects

Animals

68

cxplained

ib.

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in

Locke's opinion concerning Darkness con-

the Human Species

69

sidered

86

Proportion further considered

71

Darkness terrible in its own nature 87

Fitness not the cause of Beauty

72

Why darkness is terrible

ib,

The real effects of Fitness

73

The effects of Blackness

89

The Recapitulation

74

The effects of Blackness moderated

ib.

Perfection not the cause of Beauty ib.

The physical cause of Love

89

How far the idea of Beauty may be ap-

Why Smoothness is Beautiful

ib.

plied to the qualities of the mind

ib. Sweetness, its nature

90

How far the idea of Beauty may be ap- Sweetness relaxing

ib.

plied to virtue

75

Variation why beautiful

91

The real cause of Beauty

ib. Concerning Sinallness

ib.

Beautiful objects small

ib.

Of Colour

93

Smoothness

76

Gradual Variation

ib.

PART V.

Delicacy

ib.

Beauty in colour

77 Of Words

93

Recapitulation

ib. The common effect of Poetry, not by rais-

The Physiognomy

ib. ing ideas of things

ib

The Eye

ib. General words before ideas

94

Ugliness

78 The effect of Words

95

Grace

ib. Examples that words may affect without

Elegance and Speciousness

ib. raising images

ib.

The Beautiful in Feeling

ib. Poetry not strictly an imitative art 97

The Beautiful in Sounds

79 How Words influence the Passions ib'

iii

C

.

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157

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