Chapter IV: Of Imagination Contemplative

§ 1. Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence, but only a habit or mode of the faculty. 192 § 2. The ambiguity of conception. 192 § 3. Is not in itself capable of adding to the charm of fair things. 193 § 4. But gives to the imagination its regardant power over them. 194 § 5. The third office of fancy distinguished from imagination contemplative. 195 § 6. Various instances. 197 § 7. Morbid or nervous fancy. 200 § 8. The action of contemplative imagination is not to be expressed by art. 201 § 9. Except under narrow limits.—1st. Abstract rendering of form without color. 201 § 10. Of color without form. 202 § 11. Or of both without texture. 202 § 12. Abstraction or typical representation of animal form. 203 § 13. Either when it is symbolically used. 204 § 14. Or in architectural decoration. 205 § 15. Exception in delicate and superimposed ornament. 206 § 16. Abstraction necessary from imperfection of materials. 206 § 17. Abstractions of things capable of varied accident are not imaginative. 207 § 18. Yet sometimes valuable. 207 § 19. Exaggeration. Its laws and limits. First, in scale of representation. 208 § 20. Secondly, of things capable of variety of scale. 209 § 21. Thirdly, necessary in expression of characteristic features on diminished scale. 210 § 22. Recapitulation. 211