Chapter I
Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston translation
THE PRINCIPLE OF GENUINE SCULPTURE
1. The essential content of sculpture 121
[(a) The twofold aspect of subjectivity. The province of subjective life as such to be excluded from sculpture. The Divine presented in its infinite repose and sublimity 122
(b) Presents a spiritual content only as explicit in bodily shape] 125
2. The beautiful form of sculpture 126
(a) The exclusion of the particularity of the appearance. How far relative 130
(b) The exclusion of incidental facial expression 130
(c) Substantive individuality 131
3. Sculpture as the art of the classical Ideal 132