Section II. Of Power

Chapter I.—General Principles respecting Ideas of Power.

§ 1. No necessity for detailed study of ideas of imitation.

§ 2. Nor for separate study of ideas of power.

§ 3. Except under one particular form.

§ 4. There are two modes of receiving ideas of power, commonly inconsistent.

§ 5. First reason of the inconsistency.

§ 6. Second reason for the inconsistency.

§ 7. The sensation of power ought not to be sought in imperfect art.

§ 8. Instances in pictures of modern artists.

§ 9. Connection between ideas of power and modes of execution.

Chapter II.—Of Ideas of Power, as they are dependent upon Execution.

§ 1. Meaning of the term "execution."

§ 2. The first quality of execution is truth.

§ 3. The second, simplicity.

§ 4. The third, mystery.

§ 5. The fourth, inadequacy; and the fifth, decision.

§ 6. The sixth, velocity.

§ 7. Strangeness an illegitimate source of pleasure in execution.

§ 8. Yet even the legitimate sources of pleasure in execution are inconsistent with each other.

§ 9. And fondness for ideas of power leads to the adoption of the lowest.

§ 10. Therefore perilous.

§ 11. Recapitulation.

Chapter III.—Of the Sublime.

§ 1. Sublimity is the effect upon the mind of anything above it.

§ 2. Burke's theory of the nature of the sublime incorrect, and why.

§ 3. Danger is sublime, but not the fear of it.

§ 4. The highest beauty is sublime.

§ 5. And generally whatever elevates the mind.

§ 6. The former division of the subject is therefore sufficient.