[152] Thus poetry is primarily a romantic art, but in the Epic it is affiliated with the objective character of classical art, or we may say that there is a romantic and classical type of architecture, though the art is primarily symbolic.
[153] Gestalt. Plastic power is perhaps a better translation.
[154] He means that in architecture the building is merely a shrine or environment of the image of the god.
[155] Infinite, of course, in the concrete sense of rounded in itself, as the circle, or, still more, the living organism.
[156] Lit., "which is not also that of the spiritual sphere."
[157] That is, an object limited only in space.
[158] Subjektivität. The particularization in romantic art implies the presence of an ideal element imported by the soul of the artist, which appeals directly to the soul in its emotional life. Compare a picture by an Italian master with a Greek statue.
[159] Lit., "A multiplicity of isolated examples of inwardness."
[160] That is, in the life shared by all as one community actuated by a common purpose.
[161] As in sculpture.