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fol. 18r 	[fol. 17v is blank]    Chapter IV in Part I, Section I: 'Of Ideas of Imitation' (3.100-1)
      
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     #47#< 2. Ideas of Imitation .  These are the perception <of> that the work of art produced
     resembles something which it is not.     The pleasure derived from them
     is that of simple <wonder> surprise  unattended with any perception
     of the means employed or veneration of the art.  these being indeed often
 5   <sometimes*> more or less associated with the ideas of imitation . but not
     necessarily is . <nor in any degree     that is to say> . the two sources of
     pleasure <are> (being} entirely distinct and even contradictory .  For it is necessary
     to great pleasure in the ideas of power, that the means should be perceived
     and to great pleasure in the ideas of imitation . that the means should
10   not be perceived. >          *Two things are requisite to <the> {great} pleasure <of>
     {in} imitation .
     first . that the resemblance be so perfect as to amount to a deception .
     secondly that there be some means of proving at the same moment .
     that it isa deception .         The most perfect ideas and pleasures
     of imitation are therefore when one sense is contradicted by another   .
15   both bearing {as} positive evidence on the subject as each is capable of .alone.
     		as when the eye says a thing is round and the finger says it is flat.
     They are therefore never felt in so high a degree as in painting  .  <The> when
     <deceptive imitations> ^ {appearances} of projection - roughness - hair - velvet . &c -
     are given
     with a smooth surface . ^ {or of space & distance on an unretiring one  .}   The
     pleasure taken in waxwork (which is one <lower
20   still than that in mark[?]> peculiar to the lowest & most degraded minds) is not in

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