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fol. 42v	'Of the Sublime'  (Pt I, Sn II, Ch III)     (3.129-30)
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
 5   	< <first - how it is generally received     secondly> .  how it may be received.
     	Thirdly . how it <ought to be received  .>
     	<Now whatever has been done - that is difficult to do> - must of course
     	<in those persons who can perceive its difficulty  .> >#71#
10   	in the purity of their conceptions of the Ideal .
     	         And that of Ideas of Relation will lead us to compare them as
     originators of new and just thought. <and to observe the moral
     	truth>  <as it<s> <is> new {ness   constituting <to> vigour of imagination} it
     will lead us to observe the <sacredness> action
     	of the Imagination  . as it is just.  It will lead us to>
15   	its newness <being the test of> {proving} vigour of imagination . {&}  Its
     										greatness
     	<the test of> {constituting} moral truth .  <the two highest and <best>
     noblest>
      
      
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fol. 43r	Chapter III of Part I, Section II: 'Of the Sublime'  (3.128?)
Chapter I of Part I, Section II: 'General Principles respecting Ideas of Power' (3.117)
      
      
      
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     always in some degree productive of the sensation of the sublime .  It does
     not matter . however - whether the sensation received be always worthy
     of such a title .  its is invariably a pure and noble pleasure. and exalts
     the mind in the degree in which it is felt .   We shall endeavour
 5   to ascertain how and wh<ere>y it is felt in the highest degree  -
     #72#< In order to form <&> a high idea of power .  we must see it or feel it in
     operation  .    In order to its operation there must be something for it
     to overcome .  and <in order> therefore some resistance to it.   But if any
     thing can in any degree resist it.  it cannot be irresistible   It is not
10   therefore from those powers which overwhelm ^ {and annihilate} resistance that we
     receive
     the greatest idea of power - <f>but from those which only overcome resistance
     The highest art therefore .  which is not <so much> an effort . but an Emanation
     <in wh> <before which matter>  .  in which all is conquered - and all attained .
     does not so much impress us with the idea of power as that which, less
15   perfect in its victory - leaves us some conception   of whaqt is has opposed . >
     1st   The idea of power which we receive from a calculation of unseen difficulty
     and an estimate of unseen power. is never to impressive {vivid} as that which we
     receive
     from the present sensation of the one resisting . & the other overwhelming  .
     In the one case the power is imagined. and in the other . felt .   <Thus>.
     <s>Supposing
20   ourselves even capable of ascertaining <in our own persons> {for ourselves}. the truth
     										of what is

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