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420 On the Beautiful in the Grecian Statues, 
be found tobe one and the same. In receiving 
that as beautiful whichis, we defer to the divine 
wisdom; inthe appeal to the reason of man, the 
mind and act of, Deity is justified to the mind 
of man. 
But there is alsova use in referring the judgment 
of beauty to these two tests, as they mutually 
serve to obviate some difficulties, to reply to 
some objections, and to correct some erroneous 
judgments to which we might be liable, if we had 
only one test to appeal to, The expectation of 
the beautiful, according to the sentimental stand- 
ard, inall of the human kind, is repelled when 
we take into our view the varieties of human life, 
and admit that these varieties require a confor- 
mation nicely adapted to the usefui in all. Whe- 
ther ir be that difference of climate, of situation, 
of employment bodily or mental, and of age, in- 
duce, as the mere effect of a cause, such smaller 
variations of the human form ; or that man gene- 
rally issues from the hand of his Maker with such 
variations of form as may furnish all the diversified 
agents fitted to bear.their several parts in the vast 
community of men, makes no difference in the 
conclusion.. »Wherever the diversities of the 
useful require a deviation from the absolute 
standard of sentimental beauty, we submit our 
judgment thereto,:and acknowledge a specific 
