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pleased with his form, pronounce also that it is 
good; and believe that it is beautiful, because it 
is eminently usefal ; and as, without any consi- 
deration of utility, he pronounces that to be’ 
the most beautiful of all the varieties of the human 
form, which is the mean of themall, so infer the 
same conclusion, when he estimates the mean of 
all utilities, regard being had to the respective 
worth and dignity of these utilities. 
It is therefore more than probable, that whether 
we estimate beauty by the mean of utility, or 
simply by the mean of form, we shall arrive at 
the same, or nearly the same conclusion; we 
shall attain the same standard. But the investi- 
gation of these utilities in all their comprehension 
and reference to their best result is*more difficult, 
and except in obvious and familiar instances, 
-does not excite attention in common observers. 
This common sense of man however in the most 
familiar instances is an evidence of vast import, 
the mind expects and is reconciled to the more 
delicate judgments of more attentive observers ; 
and a persuasion is induced, that if man were com- 
petent to the complete analysis of himself, he 
would find that the mean of his whole form is 
admirably adapted to the mean of allhis utilities. 
It is surely agreeable that the standard of beauty 
derived from two very different sources should 
