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fol. 28v     	'Of Ideas of Truth … Beauty and Relation' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch I)  (3.136)
      
      
     #18#< <But let it never be thought that any indifference to - or dislike of > -
     But this indifference to high art . be it especially observe -  proceeds .not    observed
     from the want of truth in the art itself -  for then it would be just
     & right - but from the want of sympathy in ^ {the spectator with} the feelings <which distorts
 5   the utterance of certain truths, rather than of others.> of the artist.
     For {which dictate the utterance of one truth rather than of another .}  - and this
     		is what I wish especially at present to insist upon) although &c#19# > he
      
      
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fol. 29r        'Of Ideas of Truth … Beauty and Relation' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch I)  (3.136)
      
      
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     as it is seen .  displeasing.
     #21#<Finally - be it especially observed ^ <that>> ^ although it is possible to reach
     what I call the first end of art .  <without> the representation of facts
     without reaching the second .  the representation of thoughts.  yet it is
 5   altogether impossible to reach the second . without having previously
     	reached the first.         I do not say that a man cannot think , having
     false basis & material for thoughts .    but that a false thought is
     worse than {even} the want of thought.  and therefore is not art.      And this
     is the reason why .   though I consider the second <end> as the real.
10   and only important end of all art .   I call the representation of
     facts .  the first end . because it is necessary to the other . and must be
     attained before it .      It is the foundation of all art , like real foundations
     it may be mean & little thought of when a brilliant fabric is raised on it .
     but it must be there -     *< <No beautiful building can be raised without
15   a foundation -  <Chinese>   Summer houses & wigwams & Chinese toys &
     trickeries <can - but nothing great or beautiful> >. ^ {& more than this} <and not only <are>this - {<nay>} but> >
     {as few} buildings are <seldom> beautiful unless every line & column & decoration
     <to *.*> in them is pointing to their foundation and suggestive of its
     existence & strength ,     <And> so nothing ^ {can be} beautiful in art <can existv without
20   this great foundation of truth - and nothing is beautiful> which does not
     in all its parts suggest and guide to the foundation - <though> ^ {even where} no part of
     its <consts> brickwork may be really seen. ^*  <And so>  {Thus} - though we want the thoughts
      

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