← The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
Chapter 3
Part III. — Form
§ 19. There is a beauty of form 82
§ 20. Physiology of the perception of form 85
§ 21. Values of geometrical figures 88
§ 22. Symmetry 91
§ 23. Form the unity of a manifold 95
§ 24. Multiplicity in uniformity 97
§ 25. Example of the stars 100
§ 26. Defects of pure multiplicity 106
§ 27. Aesthetics of democracy 110
§ 28. Values of types and values of examples 112
§ 29. Origin of types 116
§ 30. The average modified in the direction of pleasure 121
§ 31. Are all things beautiful? 126
§ 32. Effects of indeterminate form 131
§ 33. Example of landscape 133
§ 34. Extensions to objects usually not regarded aesthetically 138
§ 35. Further dangers of indeterminateness 142
§ 36. The illusion of infinite perfection 146
§ 37. Organized nature the source of apperceptive forms 152
§ 38. Utility the principle of organization in nature 155
§ 39. The relation of utility to beauty 157
§ 40. Utility the principle of organization in the arts 160
§ 41. Form and adventitious ornament 163
§ 42. Syntactical form 167
§ 42. Literary form. The plot 171
§ 44. Character as an aesthetic form 174
§ 45. Ideal characters 176
§ 46. The religious imagination 180
§ 47. Preference is ultimately irrational 185