1/4 love's meinie. 



differences ; — of the whiteness in snow, and in 

 almond-paste, and their differences ; — of the 

 blackness and brightness of night and day, or 

 of smoke and gashght, and their differences, 

 etc., etc. But for the Perception of Beauty, I 

 always used Plato's word, which is the proper 

 word in Greek, and the only possible single 

 word that can be used in any other language 

 by any man who understands the subject, — 

 'Theoria,' — the Germans only having a term 

 parallel to it, ' Anschauung,' assumed to be its 

 equivalent in p. 22 of the old edition of 

 ' Modern Painters,' but which is not its real 

 equivalent, for Anschauung does not (I believe) 

 include bodily sensation, whereas Plato's 

 Theoria does, so far as is necessary; and 

 mine, somewhat more than Plato's. "The 

 first perfection," (then I say, in this so long in 

 coming paragraph) of the theoretic faculty, 

 " is the kindness and unselfish fulness of heart, 

 which receives the utmost amount of pleasure 

 from the happiness of all things. Of which in 

 high degree the heart of man is incapable ; 

 neither what intense enjoyment the angels may 

 have in all that they see of things that move 

 and live, and in the part they take in the 



