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     Notes.  Pyramids chiefly impressive by this .
     	Excellence more difficult to perceive than beauty .
      
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fol. 17r		Chapter III of Part I, Section I: 'Of Ideas of Power' (3.98)
      
      
      
     paint lemon peels.   If he did use his high powers upon them - if there
     were anything in the subject which could possibly give any field for the
     <occupation> {employment} of a high power . <then is> excellence ^ {is produced} .
     excellence capable of
     giving exactly the same gratification {<wh>} - in a lemon peel or a Madonna . *
 5   <provided the same power be exercised on them>     Imagination - <for>
     knowledge of colour - philosophy in adaptation of means to ends - may
     be shown in a painting of a lemon peel - and then the painting is
     excellent - according to the dignity of those powers & proportion of them
     employed -  <I>It is impossible they should be employed in vain . and
10   <Piety - or knowledge of human nature - or of anatomy - cannot be shown
     in such a painting . but because they cannot be employed in it . >
     the simple powers give as much pleasure with the lemon peel for
     their development . as with the Madonna . it is by the additional
     operation of other powers besides these - or of these in a quarter degree .
     15	that the painting of the Madonna is more excellent.
     Be it remembered then . <Great p>Power is never wasted ^ {not} in the estimation
     Of a hair .  Whatever power has been employed produces excellence
     in proportion to its own dignity & execution . and the power of perceiving
     this exertion . & appreciating this dignity . is the Power of perceiving
     20	<and appreciating> excellence

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