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fol. 50r  [fol. 49v is blank]	 'Relative Importance of Truths' (???  )   (3.152???)
				 'Recapitulation' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch VI)    (3.163)
      
      
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     #55#< 2nd . ly .  Truths which characterize species . are more important
     	than those which characterise individuals .
     This is not an universal rule .  and ought not properly to have
     a place in this chapter  . for it arises chiefly from the fact
 5   	that a truth of species is always a beauty . but a truth of individualy [sic]
     often a deformity   .   <they> {Truths of species} are properly speaking
     				                                      therefore - though
     preferable . because a painter must always prefer beauty to
     deformity - not more important . because a truth of individuality
     is more characteristic than a truth of species .  But as we have
10   	nothing whatever to do with beauty at present . we shall leave this
     	question for its proper place . >
     3rd .	Those truths are most important . which are most historical  .
     That is to say . those facts, in any object . are most important, which
     tell us most of its past & future history .  ^ {<& p<*..*>resent nature>}   In a
     tree for instance
15   	it is more important to give . that ^ {appearance of} energy and elasticity in the
     								       boughs
     and sprays which is suggestive of growth & life  , than any particular
     character of leaf - or texture of <trunk> {bough} - It is more important that we
     should feel that the uppermost sprays are creeping higher & higher
     into the sky - and be impressed with the <one> pervading current of
20   	life & motion which is animating every fibre - and ^ {know}that the trunk
     is old and hard and weatherbeaten , and the sprays young - and flexible
     & delicate - & just born - than ^ {that} we should - be informed of the <past>
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