Part 16 (1/1)

”Thus the distinct boundaries and offices of _reason_ and of _taste_ are easily ascertained The forives the sentiment of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue The one discovers objects as they really stand in nature, without addition or di and staining all natural objects with the colours borrowed from internal senti cool and disengaged, is no motive to action, and directs only the i us theives pleasure or pain, and thereby constitutes happiness oror impulse to desire and volition

From circumstances and relations known or supposed, the former leads us to the discovery of the concealed and unknown After all circumstances and relations are laid before us, the latter makes us feel from the whole a new senti founded on the nature of things, is external and inflexible, even by the will of the Supre from the internal frame and constitution of animals, is ultimately derived fro its peculiar nature, and arranged the several classes and orders of existence”--(IV pp

376-7)

Huations of morality, but it is obviously in accordance with his view of the nature of those obligations Under its theological aspect, round for such obedience is two-fold; either we ought to obey God because He will punish us if we disobey Hiuht to flow frouiven

For, if any man should say that he takes no pleasure in the contemplation of the ideal of perfect holiness, or, in other words, that he does not love God, the atte that pleasure would be as hopeless as the endeavour to persuade Peter Bell of the ”witchery of the soft blue sky”

In whichever e look at the h reason alone is competent to trace out the effects of our actions and thereby dictate conduct Justice is founded on the love of one's neighbour; and goodness is a kind of beauty Therun upon instinctive intuitions, and is neither more nor less ”innate” and ”necessary” than they are Soot to understand the first book of Euclid; but the truths of reat mass of mankind Some there are who cannot feel the difference between the _Sonata Appassionata_, and _Cherry Ripe_; or between a gravestone-cutter's cherub and the Apollo Belvidere; but the canons of art are none the less acknowledged

While some there may be, who, devoid of sympathy are incapable of a sense of duty; but neither does their existence affect the foundations of ical deviations from true manhood are merely the halt, the lame, and the blind of the world of consciousness; and the anatomist of the nore abnormal specimens

And as there are Pascals and Mozarts, Newtons and Raffaelles, in whom the innate faculty for science or art seeh whoe and new conceptions of beauty: so there have been enius, to e ideals of duty and visions of moral perfection, which ordinary h, happily for them, they can feel the beauty of a vision, which lay beyond the reach of their dull i soe of it in the actual world

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