JOHN RUSKIN
MODERN PAINTERS
MODERN PAINTERS
VOL.II
"OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY"
AND
"OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY"
By JOHN RUSKIN, LLD.,
HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH,
OXFORD, AND HONORARY FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI
COLLEGE, OXFORD.
"Accuse me not
Of arrogance,.. <...> If, having walked with Nature,
And offered, far as frailty would allow,
My heart a daily sacrifice to Truth,
I now affirm of Nature and of Truth,
Whom I have served, that their Divinity
Revolts, offended at the ways of men. <...> Philosophers, who, though the human soul
Be of a thousand faculties composed,
And twice ten thousand interests, do yet prize
This soul, and the transcendent universe,
No more than as a mirror that reflects
To proud Self-love her own intelligence."
WORDSWORTH
RE-ARRANGED IN TWO VOLUMES, AND REVISED BY
THE AUTHOR
VOL. I
SIXTH EDITION
GEORGE ALLEN, SUNNYSIDE, ORPINGTON
AND
156, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON
1896
[All rights reserved]
CONTENTS. <...> My reasons for this carefully revised reprint of the second volume of "Modern Painters," after so often declaring that I
would reprint none of the book except the pieces relating to
natural history, are given in the eighth number of "Deucalion":
and I will only say farther here, that many and many a time
during the revision, I wished I had persisted in my old resolution; not in the mere wounded vanity of an old author looking
back on his earliest essays, but in much shame, and some indignation, at finding the most solemn of all subjects of human
thought handled at once with the presumption of a youth, and
the affectation of an anonymous writer. <...> But that the confession of faults might be complete, I
have made no attempt to amend the text. <...> Not a word is omitted;
and, I believe, only three or four changed, which were too obscure, or evidently at the time inadvertent. <...> A few, now useless,
notes, referring to buildings since destroyed, or pictures carried
away from their homes to Berlin or St. Petersburg, have been
cancelled, — and a few pedantic ones shortened; while the parts
of the text which needed definite contradiction, or correction <...>
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MODERN PAINTERS
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MODERN PAINTERS
VOL.II
"OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY"
AND
"OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY"
By JOHN RUSKIN, LLD.,
HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH,
OXFORD, AND HONORARY FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI
COLLEGE, OXFORD.
"Accuse me not
Of arrogance,..
If, having walked with Nature,
And offered, far as frailty would allow,
My heart a daily sacrifice to Truth,
I now affirm of Nature and of Truth,
Whom I have served, that their Divinity
Revolts, offended at the ways of men.
Philosophers, who, though the human soul
Be of a thousand faculties composed,
And twice ten thousand interests, do yet prize
This soul, and the transcendent universe,
No more than as a mirror that reflects
To proud Self-love her own intelligence."
WORDSWORTH
RE-ARRANGED IN TWO VOLUMES, AND REVISED BY
THE AUTHOR
VOL. I
SIXTH EDITION
GEORGE ALLEN, SUNNYSIDE, ORPINGTON
AND
156, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON
1896
[All rights reserved]
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CONTENTS.
SECTION I. ........................................................................................9
OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY. ....................................................9
CHAPTER I............................................................................9
Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic Faculty.
...............................................................................................9
CHAPTER II. .......................................................................20
Of the Theoretic Faculty as Concerned with
Pleasures of Sense................................................................20
CHAPTER III.......................................................................28
Of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Impressions of
Sense. ...................................................................................28
CHAPTER IV. ......................................................................40
Of False Opinions held Concerning Beauty. .........40
SECTION II......................................................................................49
OF TYPICAL BEAUTY....................................................................49
CHAPTER I..........................................................................49
Of Infinity, or the Type of Divine
Incomprehensibility. ............................................................49
CHAPTER II. .......................................................................62
Of Unity, or the Type of the Divine
Comprehensiveness. ............................................................62
CHAPTER III.......................................................................79
Of Repose, or the Type of Dirine Permanence......79
CHAPTER IV. ......................................................................88
Of Symmetry, or the Type of Divine Justice. ........88
CHAPTER V.........................................................................91
Of Purity, or the Type of Divine Energy. ..............91
CHAPTER VI. ......................................................................97
Of Moderation, or the Type of Government by Law.
.............................................................................................97
CHAPTER VII....................................................................103
General Inferences respecting Typical Beauty. ...103
SECTION III. .................................................................................107
OF VITAL UY. .....................................................................107
CHAPTER I........................................................................107
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CHAPTER II. .....................................................................120
Of Vital Beauty: II. Generic.
Of Vital Beauty; I. Relative. ................................107
120
CHAPTER III.....................................................................131
III. Of Vital Beauty in Man. ................................131
CHAPTER IV. ....................................................................154
General Conclusions Respecting the Theoretic
Faculty. ..............................................................................154
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PREFACE.
My reasons for this carefully revised reprint of the second
volume of "Modern Painters," after so often declaring that I
would reprint none of the book except the pieces relating to
natural history, are given in the eighth number of "Deucalion":
and I will only say farther here, that many and many a time
during the revision, I wished I had persisted in my old resolution;
not in the mere wounded vanity of an old author looking
back on his earliest essays, but in much shame, and some indignation,
at finding the most solemn of all subjects of human
thought handled at once with the presumption of a youth, and
the affectation of an anonymous writer.
But that the confession of faults might be complete, I
have made no attempt to amend the text. Not a word is omitted;
and, I believe, only three or four changed, which were too obscure,
or evidently at the time inadvertent. A few, now useless,
notes, referring to buildings since destroyed, or pictures carried
away from their homes to Berlin or St. Petersburg, have been
cancelled, — and a few pedantic ones shortened; while the parts
of the text which needed definite contradiction, or correction,
have been dealt with as they occurred, in notes distinguished
from the old ones by being placed within marks of parenthesis.
To the addenda given in the former second edition I
have subjoined a little piece of autobiography, which explains
the peculiar temper in which the whole book was written: and it
remains for me here, only to give such general account of its
contents as may enable the reader to make what use of them
may seem best to him.
Its first great assertion is, that beautiful things are useful
to men because they are beautiful, and for the sake of their
beauty only; and not to sell, or pawn — or, in any other way,
turn into money. This, the beginning of all my political economy,
is very sufficiently established in the opening chapter.
It then proceeds to ask — What makes anything beautiful,
or ugly, in itself? implying therefore that positive beauty,
and positive ugliness, are independent of anybody's taste. This,
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