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a black skin, admire these points strongly developed. No 

 donbt characters of all kinds may easily be too much de- 

 veloped for beauty. Hence a perfect beauty, which im- 

 plies many characters modified in a particular manner, will 

 in every race be a prodigy. As the great anatomist Bi- 

 chat long ago said, if every one were cast in the same 

 mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. If all 

 our women were to become as beautiful as the Venus de 

 Medici, we should for a time be charmed ; but we should 

 soon wish for variety ; and as soon as we had obtained 

 variety, we should wish to see certain characters in our 

 women a little exaggerated beyond the then existing com- 

 mon standard. 



