On the Beautiful in the Grecian Statues. 421 
beauty; and with delight acknowledge, where 
adaptation to strength, to toil, to hardihood, to 
boldness, to enterprise, to speed, to versatility or 
any other peculiar end, is the predominating 
character of the form. In the distribution of 
men therefore into classes according to their 
situations and subservience in life, the rational 
standard admits a beauty, peculiar and appro- 
priate to each; which if not found would be 
deemed to be a defect, though the degree in 
which this specific character is required would 
not be admitted either in the rational or senti- 
mental standard of the mean perfect beauty 
of the whole human kind. Thus a length of 
arm, and lightness of leg are well adapted to the 
maneuvres of the sailor, but would be unsuited 
to the pedestrian, in whom is required a strong 
and muscular leg with as little super-incumbent 
weight of body as is consistent with general 
vigour. And thus in the different occupations 
of men, the estimated beauty of form in each 
class will be adapted to the part which each has 
to sustain in life. A general, when he looks 
with pride on the manly figure of his soldiers, 
has a different standard of beauty in his eye from 
that by which he would judge of the graceful 
and elegant in an assembly of the higher ranks 
of life, We observe a similar rule in the judg. ° 
