79

CHAPTER X.--Of Moderation, or the Type of Government by Law.

Sec. 1. Meaning of the terms Chasteness and Refinement. 81
Sec. 2. How referable to temporary fashions. 81
Sec. 3. How to the perception of completion. 81
Sec. 4. Finish, by great masters esteemed essential. 82
Sec. 5. Moderation, its nature and value. 84
Sec. 6. It is the girdle of beauty. 84
Sec. 7. How found in natural curves and colors. 84
Sec. 8. How difficult of attainment, yet essential to all good. 85

CHAPTER XI.--General Inferences respecting Typical Beauty.

Sec. 1. The subject incompletely treated, yet admitting of general
conclusions. 86
Sec. 2. Typical beauty not created for man's sake. 87
Sec. 3. But degrees of it for his sake admitted. 87
Sec. 4. What encouragement hence to be received. 87

CHAPTER XII.--Of Vital Beauty:--First, as Relative.

Sec. 1. Transition from typical to vital Beauty. 89
Sec. 2. The perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with
vital beauty, is charity. 90
Sec. 3. Only with respect to plants, less affection than sympathy. 91
Sec. 4. Which is proportioned to the appearance of energy in the
plants. 92
Sec. 5. This sympathy is unselfish, and does not regard utility. 93
Sec. 6. Especially with respect to animals. 94
Sec. 7. And it is destroyed by evidences of mechanism. 95
Sec. 8. The second perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned
with life is justice of moral judgment. 96
Sec. 9. How impeded. 97
Sec. 10. The influence of moral signs in expression. 97
Sec. 11. As also in plants. 99
Sec. 12. Recapitulation. 100

CHAPTER XIII.--Of Vital Beauty:--Secondly, as Generic.

Sec. 1. The beauty of fulfilment of appointed function in every