Chapter II
Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston translation
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SUBLIME
A. Pantheism of Art 89
1. Hindoo poetry 90
2. Persian and Mohammedan poetry. Modern reflections of such poetry as in Goethe 92
3. Christian Mysticism 97
B. The Art of the Sublime 97
1. God as Creator and Lord of a subject World. He is Creator, not Generator. His Dwelling not in Nature 100
2. Nature and the human form cut off from the Divine (entgöttert) 101
3. Nullity of objective fact a source of the enhanced self-respect of man. Man's finiteness and immeasurable transcendency of God. No place for immortality. The Law 103