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Chapter XII: Of Vital Beauty:-First, as Relative

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§ 1. Transition from typical to vital Beauty. 89 § 2. The perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with vital beauty, is charity. 90 § 3. Only with respect to plants, less affection than sympathy. 91 § 4. Which is proportioned to the appearance of energy in the plants. 92 § 5. This sympathy is unselfish, and does not regard utility. 93 § 6. Especially with respect to animals. 94 § 7. And it is destroyed by evidences of mechanism. 95 § 8. The second perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with life is justice of moral judgment. 96 § 9. How impeded. 97 § 10. The influence of moral signs in expression. 97 § 11. As also in plants. 99 § 12. Recapitulation. 100

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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John RuskinChapter XII: Of Vital Beauty:-First, as Relative

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