Chapter I.—Of Ideas of Truth in their connection with those of Beauty and Relation.

[§ 1.]The two great ends of landscape painting are the representation of facts and thoughts.[44]
[§ 2.]They induce a different choice of material subjects.[45]
[§ 3.]The first mode of selection apt to produce sameness and repetition.[45]
[§ 4.]The second necessitating variety.[45]
[§ 5.]Yet the first is delightful to all.[46]
[§ 6.]The second only to a few.[46]
[§ 7.]The first necessary to the second.[47]
[§ 8.]The exceeding importance of truth.[48]
[§ 9.]Coldness or want of beauty no sign of truth.[48]
[§ 10.]How truth may be considered a just criterion of all art.[48]

Chapter II.—That the Truth of Nature is not to be discerned by the Uneducated Senses.

[§ 1.]The common self-deception of men with respect to their power of discerning truth.[50]
[§ 2.]Men usually see little of what is before their eyes.[51]
[§ 3.]But more or less in proportion to their natural sensibility to what is beautiful.[52]
[§ 4.]Connected with a perfect state of moral feeling.[52]
[§ 5.]And of the intellectual powers.[53]
[§ 6.]How sight depends upon previous knowledge.[54]
[§ 7.]The difficulty increased by the variety of truths in nature.[55]
[§ 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.

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