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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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