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Reynold XIII Discourse (p 115)

a very good passage about actions & decisions being the result of sagacity, or intuition, when individual cannot give reason, though he feels he is right— it is because each decision is made up of many partial results, & the impressions are then are all remembered, when the memory or reasons are forgotten. Our happiness &c, our well-being depend upon the "habitual reason,"—

This power of the mind, faintly approaches to instinct

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p. 142 "Upon the whole it seems"— "that the object of all art is the realizing and embodying, what never existed but in the imagination."—

Macculloch Vol I. p. 115. Attributes of Deity on Belief.— you belief things you can give no proof for. & one often replies "what you say is perfectly true, but you do not convince me."—

Belief allied to instinct.—

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In Elliotson's Physiology much about sleep— Nerves.— Volition &c.

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How strange it, that Nature should have so little to do with art (p 128) R. compares a view taken by camera obscura &c &c

— Poussin—

How are my ideas of a general notion of everything applicable to the high idea p. 131 in Tragic acting— My idea would make the mind have mysterious & sublime ideas independent of the senses & experience

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p. 134. a painter must not a actors, or a scene in garden.— yet both beautiful!

p. 136. Says Architecture does not come under imitative art. (my view says yes. old mass of rock) or poetry my theory says yes imitating song— two primary sources, sight & hearing—