LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: or, a View of the Miseries

and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial

Society

SECT. I. Novelty

VOL. I.

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE

SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-

cerning Taste

Introduction. On Taste

PART I.

II. Pain and Pleasure

III. The Difference between the Removal of Pain, and po-

sitive Pleasure

IV. Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to each other

v. Joy and Grief

yı. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation

VII. Of the Sublime

VIII. Of the Passions which belong to Society

IX. The final cause of the Difference between the Passions

belonging to Self-preservation, and those which regard the

Society of the Sexes

x. Of Beauty

XI. Society and Solitude

XII. Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition

XIII. Sympathy

XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others

xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy

SECT. XVI. Imitation

XVII. Ambition

XVIII. The Recapitulation

XIX. The Conclusion

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART II.

SECT. I. Of the Passion caused by the Sublime

II. Terror

III. Obscurity

IV. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with

regard to the Passions

[Iv.] The same subject continued

-v. Power

-VI. Privation

-VII. Vastness

-VIII. Infinity

IX. Succession and Uniformity

x. Magnitude in Building

XI. Infinity in pleasing Objects

XII. Difficulty

-XIII. Magnificence

XIV. Light

xv. Light in Building

XVI. Colour considered as productive of the Sublime

XVII. Sound and Loudness

XVIII. Suddenness

XIX. Intermitting

xx. The Cries of Animals

Species

v. Proportion further considered

VI. Fitness not the cause of Beauty

VII. The real Effects of Fitness

SECT. 1. Of Beauty

II. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables

III. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals

IV. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human

SECT. VIII. The Recapitulation.

IX. Perfection not the cause of Beauty

x. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to the Quali-

ties of the Mind

XI. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue

XII. The real Cause of Beauty

XIII. Beautiful Objects small

Smoothness

XIV.

xv. Gradual Variation

XVI. Delicacy.

XVII. Beauty in Colour

XVIII. Recapitulation

XIX. The Physiognomy

xx. The Eye .

XXI. Ugliness

XXII. Grace

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART IV.

SECT. I. Of the efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful

II. Association

III. Cause of Pain and Fear

IV. Continued

`v. How the Sublime is produced

VI. How Pain can be a Cause of Delight

IX. Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime

x. Unity, why requisite to Vastness

XI. The artificial Infinite

XII. The Vibrations must be similar

XIII. The Effects of Succession in visual objects explained

XIV. Locke's Opinion concerning Darkness considered

xv. Darkness terrible in its own nature

XVI. Why Darkness is terrible

XVII. The Effects of Blackness

VII. Exercise necessary for the finer Organs

VIII. Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion

like Terror

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SECT. XVIII. The Effects of Blackness moderated

XIX. The physical Cause of Love.

xx. Why Smoothness is beautiful

XXI. Sweetness, its Nature

XXII. Sweetness relaxing

XXIII. Variation, why beautiful

XXIV. Concerning Smallness

xxv. Of Colour

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-Part V.

SECT. I. Of Words

11. The Common Effects of Poetry, not by raising Ideas of

things

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III. General Words before Ideas

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IV. The Effect of Words

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v. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images 173

VI. Poetry not strictly an imitative Art

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VII. How Words influence the Passions

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SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION

OBSERVATIONS On a late PUBLICATION, INTITULed The Present

STATE OF THE NATION

THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE of the PRESENT DISCONTENTS

SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION

SPEECHES AT MR. BURKE'S ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL, AND AT THE

CONCLUSION OF THE POLL

SPEECH ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH

AMERICA

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