[§ 1.]Impossibility of adequately treating the subject.[38]
[§ 2.]With what simplicity of feeling to be approached.[38]
[§ 3.]The child instinct respecting space.[39]
[§ 4.]Continued in after life.[40]
[§ 5.]Whereto this instinct is traceable.[40]
[§ 6.]Infinity how necessary in art.[41]
[§ 7.]Conditions of its necessity.[42]
[§ 8.]And connected analogies.[42]
[§ 9.]How the dignity of treatment is proportioned to the expression of infinity.[43]
[§ 10.]Examples among the Southern schools.[44]
[§ 11.]Among the Venetians.[44]
[§ 12.]Among the painters of landscape.[45]
[§ 13.]Other modes in which the power of infinity is felt.[45]
[§ 14.]The beauty of curvature.[46]
[§ 15.]How constant in external nature.[46]
[§ 16.]The beauty of gradation.[47]
[§ 17.]How found in nature.[47]
[§ 18.]How necessary in Art.[48]
[§ 19.]Infinity not rightly implied by vastness.[49]

Chapter VI.—Of Unity, or the Type of the Divine Comprehensiveness.

[§ 1.]The general conception of divine Unity.[50]
[§ 2.]The glory of all things is their Unity.[50]
[§ 3.]The several kinds of unity. Subjectional. Original. Of sequence, and of membership.[51]
[§ 4]Unity of membership. How secured.[52]
[§ 5.]Variety. Why required.[53]
[§ 6.]Change, and its influence on beauty.[54]
[§ 7.]The love of change. How morbid and evil.[55]
[§ 8.]The conducing of variety towards unity of subjection.[55]
[§ 9.]And towards unity of sequence.[57]
[§ 10.]The nature of proportion. 1st, of apparent proportion.[57]
[§ 11.]The value of apparent proportion in curvature.[60]
[§ 12.]How by nature obtained.[61]
[§ 13.]Apparent proportion in melodies of line.[61]
[§ 14.]Error of Burke in this matter.[62]
[§ 15.]Constructive proportion. Its influence in plants.[63]
[§ 16.]And animals.[64]
[§ 17.]Summary.[64]

Chapter VII.—Of Repose, or the Type of Divine Permanence.

[§ 1.]Universal feeling respecting the necessity of repose in art. Its sources.[65]
[§ 2.]Repose how expressed in matter.[66]
[§ 3.]The necessity to repose of an implied energy.[66]
[§ 4.]Mental repose, how noble.[67]
[§ 5.]Its universal value as a test of art.[68]
[§ 6.]Instances in the Laocoon and Theseus.[69]
[§ 7.]And in altar tombs.[70]

Chapter VIII.—Of Symmetry, or the Type of Divine Justice.

[§ 1.]Symmetry, what and how found in organic nature.[72]
[§ 2.]How necessary in art.[72]
[§ 3.]To what its agreeableness is referable. Various instances.[73]
[§ 4.]Especially in religious art.[73]