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fol. 35v  				'Of Ideas of Beauty' (Pt I, Sn I, Ch VI)       (3.110)
      
		[Slip inserted:  Mod. Painters / ----- / Vol. I. / ---- / Pt. 1.  Sec . 1  Chap 6. / p. 26 / ------- / Of
Ideas of Beauty / ---- ]
      
      
     		The term taste is thus to be distinguished from that of judgment,
     		with which it is is often confounded -  Judgment is a general term
 5   <applicable to eve>   expressing definite action of the intellect - and
     		applicable to every <ob> {kind of} subject which can be submitted to it .
     	 	There may be judgment of congruity .  judgment of  truth .
     		judgment of justice .  and judgment of difficulty & excellence .
     		But all these <eff> exertions of the intellect are totally distinct
     	10	from taste properly so called - which is the instinctive and instant
     		preference of one material object to another - without any {felt} <reason>
     		or obvious reason for so doing .  except that it is proper to human
     		nature in its perfection . so to do  .
     Observe however .  I do not mean by excluding direct exertion of
15   the Intellect from ideas of Beauty .  to assert that Beauty has
     no effect whatever on - or connection with, the Intellect.  All our
     moral feelings are so i*……* with our intellectual powers that
     <in all probability>   we cannot affect the one without in some degree
     addressing the other  , and in all high ideas of beauty . it is probably
20   	that much of the pleasure depends on delicate and un<p>traceable #66#
fol. 36r	'Of Ideas of Beauty' (Pt I, Sn I, Ch VI)       (3.110?)
      
      
      
     are attractive to our nature in its purity & perfection .   He who receives
     little pleasure. ^ {from these} wants taste .  He who receives pleasure from a wrong
     source
     has False or bad taste.
     Men are naturally born with more or less <pleasure faculty> {power} of receiving
 5   pleasure from ideas of simple beauty .  but the faculty may be increased
     to an indefinite degree  .  Everything sinful or impure in their nature
     has a tendency to corrupt or lead astray the taste.  Perfect taste is therefore
     impossible . and good taste rare .
     The dignity of ideas of simple beauty is exactly equal to that of the
10   ideas which may be excited by music. independent of scenic or architectural
     aid .  Whatever can be said of the ^ {dignity of the}art of music .  can be said of that
     of painting . in its pursuit of ideas of simple beauty .
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