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422 On the Beautiful in the Greccan Statues. 
ment we form of the different classes of animals. 
The beautiful in the lion, the tyger, the elephant, 
the bull, the horse, and the dog, is referred to a 
different standard in each, and even in those 
species, which come more under the observation 
and use of man, as they are subdivided into 
different kinds, they have each their appropriate 
destination and appropriate character, and the 
mean form in each subordinate kind is allowed 
to be the standard of beauty in that kind, though 
varying from the standard of beauty in each 
other kind, and varying from the standard of the 
beautiful in the whole genus, where an aptitude - 
to a particular destination is not contemplated. 
The dray, the road, the race, the field of chace 
and the field of war have each their proper 
beautiful of form, while each partakes of those 
qualities, which enter into the mean beautiful of 
them all. And the same is observed of the sub- 
divisions of the canine race; the shepherd’s dog, 
the terrier, the spaniel, the fox-hound, the grey- 
hound, the bull-dog and the mastiff, to which we 
may add the favioutties of the ladies, are all 
estimated by very different standards of beautiful 
form, and yet are all referable to a form which is 
the mean of them all, and is conceived to be 
the most perfect idea of beauty in the genus, 
