Intermarriage, or, The natural laws by which beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity, from others : with delineations of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent in every pair, bestows on children, and an acount of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1841
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    SECTION II. AS TO THE LOCOMOTIVE SYSTEM. From my work on Beauty, I may first quote a general account of beauty of the Locomotive Sys- tem, as necessary to understanding the subject, and as a guide to choice. “ In the woman possessing this species of beauty, the face is generally somewhat bony and oblong;— the neck, less connected with the nutritive system, is rather long and tapering;—the shoulders, without being angular, are sufficiently broad and definite for muscular attachments;—the bosom, a vital organ, is but of moderate dimensions;—the waist, enclosing smaller nutritive organs, is remarkable for fine pro- portion, and resembles, in some respects, an in- verted cone;—the haunches, for the same reason, are but moderately expanded;—the thighs are pro- portional ;—the arms, as well as the limbs, being formed chiefly of locomotive organs, are rather long and moderately tapering; the hands and feet are moderately small;—the complexion, owing to the inferiority of the nutritive system, is often rather dark;—and the hair is frequently dark and strong. —The whole figure is precise, striking, and often brilliant. — From its proportions, it sometimes