Beauty

arious, inconsistent, or contradictory. The assertion might, therefore, appea

ound to be, in a great measure, owing to the inaccuracy of our mode of examining it, a

imperfectly; and in the second place, our actual preferences are dependant on our particular wants, and will be found to

not been attempted to be explained, except in the worthless work alluded t

emand the first and chief attention, th

er waist, remarkable for fine proportion, resembles in some respects an inverted cone; her haunches are moderately expanded; her thighs, proportional; her arms, as well as her limbs, are rather long and tapering; her hands and feet ar

by the arms; her waist, though sufficiently marked, is, as it were, encroached on by the enbonpoint of all the contiguous parts; her haunches are greatly expanded; her thighs are large in proportion; but her limbs and arms, tapering and becoming delicate, terminate in feet and hands which, compared with the ample trunk, are peculiarly small; her complexion has the rose and li

eye is full of sensibility; in her lower features, modesty and dignity are often united; she has not the expanded bosom, the general embonpoint, or the beautiful complexion, o

es of beauty of which al

pecies is suited to the wants of, and is consequently agreeable to, a different individual, it is obvious wh

eader should understand the scientific principles on which the preceding b

ssential. The writer begs, therefore, attention to the following sketch. It may not at first seem interesting to the general reader; but it is the sole basis of a s

us kind.-A little more observation presents to us another class, which is distinguished from the preceding by its consisting of cylindrical tubes, by its transmitting and transmuting liquids, performing vascular action or nutrition, and by its motions being barely appa

other by the structure of its parts, by the purposes which it

on; the second transmits and transmutes liquids, performing vascular action or nutrition; and the third transmits impressions from external objects, performin

rms locomotion, neither transmits liquids nor sensations; that which transmits liquids, neither performs locomotion nor i

g liquids or in nutrition, are the absorbent, circulating, and secreting vessels; and those employed about

al; the second, vascular or nutritive, or (as even vegetables, from their possessing vessels, have life) the

comotive or mechanical action is effected; by the second, nutritive or vital a

ers the mechanical or locomotive organs; that which considers the nutritiv

the bones or organs of support; second, the ligaments or organ

cond, the bloodvessels, which derive their contents from the absorbed lymph, or organs of circulation; an

e; second, the cerebrum or organ of thought, properly so called, where these excite ideas, emotions, and

e the functions of these organs, w

e points of support; and the muscles are the moving powers. To the first, are owing all the symmetry and elegance of human form; to the

urfaces, and continuing a similar contractile motion, transmit it, now called chyle, by all their gradually-enlarging branches, and through their general trunk, the thoracic duct, where it is blended with the lymph brought from other parts, into the great veins contiguous to the heart, where it is mixed with the venous or returning and dark-colored blood, and whence it flows into the anterior side of that organ. The anterior side of the heart, forcibly repeating this contraction, propels it, commixed with the venous blood, into the lungs, which perform the office of respiration, and in some measure of sanguification; there, giving off carbonaceous matter, and assuming a vermilion hue and new vivifying properties, it flows back as arterial blood, into the posterior side of the heart. The posterior side of the heart, still similarly contracting, discharges it into the arteri

having these transmitted to it, performs the more complicated functions of mental operation, whence result ideas, emotions,

e of the hitherto universal neglect of the natural arrangement of the organs and functions into locomotive, nutritive, an

locomotive organs, namely, of bones, ligaments, and muscles; that another, the trunk, consists of all the greater nutritive organs, namely, absorbe

s system over them, are common to us with the lowest class of beings, namely, minerals[26]-are placed in the lowest situation, namely, the extremities; that which consists chiefly of nutritive or vital organs-organs common to us with a higher class of beings

a fact, that those of absorption and secretion, which are most common to us with plants, a lower class of beings, have a lower situation-in the cavity of the abdomen; whil

o the soft parts, and are generally of cylindrical form; in the trunk, they begin to assume a more external situation and a flatter form, because they protect nutritive and more important parts, which they do not, however, altog

views is the consequence

hysiological views to the art of distin

stem which is highly developed in the beauty wh

ystem which is highly developed in the b

tem which is highly developed in the beauty whose f

trate and establish the accuracy of the three spec