Beauty: illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women / Preceded by a critical view of the general hypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. By Alexander Walker. Illustrated by drawings from life, by Henry Howard.

  • Walker, Alexander.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Beauty: illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women / Preceded by a critical view of the general hypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. By Alexander Walker. Illustrated by drawings from life, by Henry Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the race of man! As if it affected us less nearly ! as if it were more essential to have large and strong oxen than vigorous and healthy men, highly odorous peaches, or finely striped tulips, than wise and good citizens.”* I actually know a man who is so deeply inter¬ ested in the doctrine of crossing, that every hour of his life is devoted to the improvement of a race of bantam fowls and curious pigeons, and who yet married a mad woman, whom he confines in a garret, and by whom he has some insane progeny. Let it not be imagined that the discovery of the precise laws of crossing or intermarriage, and the best direction of physical living forces, in relation both to the vital faculties and to those of the mind, upon which knowledge and skill may operate for the improvement of our race, is a matter of difficulty. It will be shown in this work, that there exist * “Apres nous etre occupds si curieusenient des moyens de rendre plus belles et meilleures les races des animaux, ou des plantes utiles et agreables; apres avoir remanie cent fois celle des chevaux et des chiens ; apres avoir transplants, greffe, travaille de toutes les manieres, les fruits et les fleurs, conibien n est il pas honteux de negliger totalement la race de 1’homme ! Com me si elle nous touchait de moins pres! corame s’ il <Sta.it plus essentiel d avoir des bceufs grands et forts que des homines vigoureux et sains; des peches bien odorantes, ou des tulipes bien taehetces, que des citoyens sages et bons !”