8 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



detach their fpherical forms, by means of radiated 

 forms ; and their mining colours by means of 

 dufky tints. Thus the bright organ of virion is 

 contrafled by the eye-brows ; thofe of fmell and 

 tafte, by the muftaches ; the organ of hearing, by 

 that part of the hair called the favourite lock, 

 which feparates the ear from the face ; and the 

 face itfelf is diftinguifhed from the reft of the 

 head, by the beard, and by the hair. 



We iliall not here examine the other propor- 

 tions of the human figure in the cylindric form of 

 the neck, oppofed to the fphero'id of the head, and 

 to the plane furface of the breafl; the hemifpherical 

 forms of the paps, which contraft with the flatnefs 

 of the cheft ; as well as the cylindrical pyramids of 

 the arms and fingers with the omoplate of the 

 fhoulders ; the confonances of the fingers with the 

 arms, by means of three fimilar articulations, with 

 a multitude of other curvatures, and of other har- 

 monies, which, hitherto, have not fo much as a 

 name in any language, though they are, in every 

 country, the all-powerful expremon of beauty. 



The human body is the only one which unites, 

 in itfelf, the modulations, and the concerts, inex- 

 preffibly agreeable, of the five elementary forms, 

 and of the five primordial colours, without exhi- 

 biting any thing of the harm and rude oppositions 



perceptible 



