The Origin of Man's Thoughts--The imaginative Man--"Medicinal View" of
Poetry--Rhyme and Religion--The theological Poets and their Purpose in
Writing--Moral Poets and their "Unwelcome Truths"--The really Passionate
are the Virtuous--Difference between the Nude and the Naked--Morality
the Melody of Conduct--The inculcation of Moral Lessons not contemplated
by Artists or great Novelists--Mistaken Reformers--Art not a
Sermon--Language a Multitude of Pictures--Great Pictures and Great
Statues painted and chiseled with Words--Mediocrity moral from a
Necessity which it calls Virtue--Why Art Civilizes--The Nude--The Venus
de Milo--This is Art.