THE NATURAL 



rarely present their characteristics with sufficient dis- 

 tinction, moreover the first is rather rare: it is the one 

 which sculptors have vulgarized by amelioration. Com- 

 pare a series of photographs of art with a series of 

 photos from the nude, and you have proof enough that 

 the beauty of the human body is an ideologic creation. 

 Take away the egoistic sentiment of the race, and the 

 sexual delirium, and man would appear very inferior 

 in harmonic plentitude to most of the mammifers; the 

 monkey, his brother, is, frankly, maesthetic. 



