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Library Edition
THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
JOHN RUSKIN
MODERN PAINTERS VOLUME II--OF TRUTH AND THEORETIC FACULTIES Volume III--OF MANY THINGS
NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CHICAGO
MODERN PAINTERS.
VOLUME II.,
CONTAINING
PART III.,
SECTIONS I. AND II.
OF THE IMAGINATIVE AND THEORETIC FACULTIES.
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
PART III.
OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY.
SECTION I.
OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY.
CHAPTER I.--Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic Faculty. PAGE Sec. 1. With what care the subject is to be approached. 1 Sec. 2. And of what importance considered. 2 Sec. 3. The doubtful force of the term "utility". 3 Sec. 4. Its proper sense. 4 Sec. 5. How falsely applied in these times. 4 Sec. 6. The evil consequences of such interpretation. How connected with national power. 5 Sec. 7. How to be averted. 6 Sec. 8. Division of the pursuits of men into subservient and objective. 8 Sec. 9. Their relative dignities. 10 Sec. 10. How reversed through erring notions of the contemplative and imaginative faculties. 10 Sec. 11. Object of the present section. 11