STUDY X. 



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Religion will reftore to the two fexes, not only 

 their moral character, but their phyfical beauty. 

 It is not climate, it is not aliment, it is not bodily 

 exercife, nor all thefe together, which form human 

 beauty ; it is the moral fentiment of virtue, which 

 cannot fubfift independantly of Religion. Ali- 

 ment and exercife, no doubt, contribute greatly 

 to the magnitude and the expaniion of the body ; 

 but they have no manner of influence on the 

 beauty of the face, which is the true phyfionomy 

 of the foul. It is by no means uncommon to fee 

 perfons tall and robuft difguftingly ugly ; with the 

 ftature of a giant, and the face of a monkey. 



Beauty of face is to fuch a degree the expreffion 

 of the harmonies of the foul, that, in every coun- 

 try, thofe clafles of citizens who are, from their 

 condition, obliged to live with others in a ftate 

 of constraint, are fenfibly the homelieft of the fo- 

 ciety. The truth of this obfervation may be af- 

 certained, particularly among the nobleffe of many 

 of our provinces, who live with each other in the 

 perpetual jealoufy of rank, and with their neigh- 

 bours of an inferior order, in a (late of unremitting 

 hoftility, for the maintenance of their prerogatives. 

 Moft of thofe Nobles prefent a complexion bi- 

 lious and parched. They are meagre, fulky, and 

 perceptibly uglier than the other inhabitants of 

 the fame diftrid, though they breathe the fame 



air. 



