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LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
CONTENTS.
VOL. I.
.A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: or, a View of the Miseries
and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial
Society
A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE
SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-
cerning Taste
Introduction. On Taste
PASH
1
49
52
PART I.
SECT. I. Novelty
II. Pain and Pleasure
III. The Difference between the Removal of Pain, and po-
sitive Pleasure
IV. Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to each other
VI. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation
VII. Of the Sublime
VIII. Of the Passions which belong to Society
IX. The final cause of the Difference between the Passions
belonging to Self-preservation, and those which regard the
Society of the Sexes
76
XIII. Sympathy
79
XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others
ib.
xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy
81
98171
IV. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with
ON THE SUBLIME and BEAUTIFUL.-PART III.
SECT. 1. Of Beauty
113
II. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables
III. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals
114
117
IV. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human
Species
118
SECT. VIII. The Recapitulation.
PAGE
129
IX. Perfection not the cause of Beauty
x. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to the Quali-
ties of the Mind
130
XI. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue
131
XII. The real Cause of Beauty
ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART IV.
SECT. I. Of the efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful
II. Association
133
134
135
136
137
138
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141
it.
143
144
VII. Exercise necessary for the finer Organs
VIII. Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion
like Terror
148
149
IX. Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime
x. Unity, why requisite to Vastness
150
XI. The artificial Infinite
151
XII. The Vibrations must be similar
XIII. The Effects of Succession in visual objects explained
XIV. Locke's Opinion concerning Darkness considered
xv. Darkness terrible in its own nature
XVI. Why Darkness is terrible
XVII. The Effects of Blackness
SECT. XVIII. The Effects of Blackness moderated
XIX. The physical Cause of Love
PAGB
159
160
II. The Common Effects of Poetry, not by raising Ideas of
v. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images
173
OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION, INTItuled The Present
STATE OF THE NATION
THOUGHTS On the Cause OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS
185
306
SPEECHES AT MR. BURKE'S ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL, AND AT THE
CONCLUSION OF THE POLL
438
SPEECH ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH
AMERICA
456