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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    life after, they be so reckless, that, all the residue of the woman’s body being covered with clothes, they esteem her scarcely by one hand breadth (for they can see no more but her face), and so to join her to them, not without great jeopardy of evil agreeing together — if anything in her body afterward should chance to offend and mislike them.# Francis Bacon is of similar opinion. Happily, the advancement of anthropological science in modern times, may, as is here shown, be so applied as to render quite unnecessary the objectionable methods proposed by both these phi¬ losophers, in order to carry their doctrines into practice. Shall I be blamed,, because 1 avail myself of the progress of knowledge to render all that these great, men desired on this subject of easy attainment and in¬ offensive to woman ? Shall I be blamed, because I first facilitate that which the still further advancement of knowledge will inevitably render an every-day oc¬ currence and the guide of the most important act of human life ?—I care not. I topia, Book II. Chap, viii.