a perfect state of moral feeling. 52
Sec. 5. And of the intellectual powers. 53
Sec. 6. How sight depends upon previous knowledge. 54
Sec. 7. The difficulty increased by the variety of truths in nature. 55
Sec. 8. We recognize objects by their least important attributes.
Compare Part I. Sect. I. Chap. 4. 55

CHAPTER III.--Of the Relative Importance of Truths:--First, that
Particular Truths are more important than General Ones.

Sec. 1. Necessity of determining the relative importance of truths. 58
Sec. 2. Misapplication of the aphorism: "General truths are more
important than particular ones." 58
Sec. 3. Falseness of this maxim, taken without explanation. 59
Sec. 4. Generality important in the subject, particularity in the
predicate. 59
Sec. 5. The importance of truths of species is not owing to their
generality. 60
Sec. 6. All truths valuable as they are characteristic. 61
Sec. 7. Otherwise truths of species are valuable, because beautiful. 61
Sec. 8. And many truths, valuable if separate, may be objectionable
in connection with others. 62
Sec. 9. Recapitulation. 63

CHAPTER IV.--Of the Relative Importance of Truths:--Secondly, that
Rare Truths are more important than Frequent Ones.

Sec. 1. No accidental violation of nature's principles should be
represented. 64
Sec. 2. But the cases in which those principles have been strikingly
exemplified. 65
Sec. 3. Which are comparatively rare. 65
Sec. 4. All repetition is blamable. 65
Sec. 5. The duty of the painter is the same as that of a preacher. 66

CHAPTER V.--Of the Relative Importance of Truths:--Thirdly, that
Truths of Color are the least important of all Truths.

Sec. 1. Difference between primary and secondary qualities in bodies. 67
Sec. 2. The first are fully characteristic, the sec