| [§ 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] |