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ESSAY on the BEAUTIFUL in the 
Human Form; and Enquiry whether the 
Grecian Statues present the most perfect 
BEAUTY of FORM, that we at present 
have any Acquaintance with. 
Communicated to the Society from a CorReEsPonpeEnt, 
through the Rev. Georce WALKER, 
READ, Oct. 3, 1800, 
Ik order to judge whether the Grecian imi- 
tations, or any other imitations, of the Human 
Form be the most beautiful, it appears necessary 
that some standard, some general law or rule 
should be admitted, in conformity to, or in 
deviation from which, the sentence of beauty or 
deformity may be safely passed. That this 
‘standard has an existence in nature can hard] 
be doubted ; for, if man be the work of a design— 
ing artist, he must have been formed according 
to some model ; and this model in the contem- 
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