412 On the Beautiful in the Grecian Statues. 
these ; it would surely. be admitted that this face 
would be the perfect model of our national 
beauty.. If the same experiment were made in 
other nations; excluding those in whom the ex- 
tremes of climate necessarily induce a depravation 
of the form, the model of beauty in the female 
face would be equally obtained in these nations as 
their appropriate standard. And if from these 
several national standards the mean of them 
should also be taken, this last image must be 
admitted to be as perfect a representative of the 
beauty of face, of the whole female race, as is 
possible to be obtained. 
This judgment is founded on the supposition 
that the design of the Creator is eyidenced in his 
productions, and. that the mean character of his 
productions of any species must approach the 
nearest to the perfect model contemplated in the 
Creator’s mind, Our sense of beauty; our de- 
light therein, can find its object only in the pro- 
duction of the Creator, our taste conforms itself 
to what is done, and the mean character must be 
the highest standard, the utmost conception of 
beauty that we can form. Either our ideal 
standard or image of beauty is born with us, or 
it is thus acquired; the former would be a mere 
arbitrary supposition, the latter accords with ex, 
perience, is confirmed by reflection on our daily 
