may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philosophical solidity, but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces and elegancies of taste, without which the greatest proficiency in those sciences will always have the appearance of something illiberal.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of

our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 121

[The first edition of this work was published in 1756; the

second, with large additions, in the year 1757.]

III. The Difference between the removal of

Pain and positive Pleasure

123

125

SECT.

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VIII. Of the Passions which belong to Society 134

IX. The final cause of the Difference be-

X.

XI.

tween the Passions belonging to Self-

preservation, and those which regard

the Society of the Sexes

Of Beauty

Society and Solitude

136

139

140

ibid.

142

XXI. Smell and Taste. Bitters and Stenches 198

XXII. Feeling. Pain

200

PART III.

I.

Of Beauty

II.

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in

Vegetables

III. Proportion not the cause of Beauty in

Animals

IV. Proportion not the cause of Beauty in

V.

VI.

Proportion further considered

Fitness not the cause of Beauty

VII. The real Effects of Fitness

VIII. The Recapitulation

205

210

212

IX.

X.

XI.

Perfection not the cause of Beauty

How far the idea of Beauty may be ap-

plied to the Qualities of the Mind

How far the idea of Beauty may be ap-

263

VI. How Pain can be a cause of Delight

VII. Exercise necessary for the finer Organs

VIII. Why things not dangerous sometimes

produce a passion like Terrour

IX. Why visual Objects of great dimensions

are sublime

265

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