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3624. The spirits of the senses are Art-spirits, the 

 spirit of reason is the spirit of Science. 



Art. 



3625. Art is the representation of the senses in 

 Nature. 



3626. The sense is, however, the last or ultimate 

 design of Nature. 



Art is consequently the representation of Nature s 

 design. (Ed. 1st, 1811. 3517.) 



3627. That is beautiful which represents the will of 

 Nature. 



But non-beautiful is that which represents real 

 Nature by means of art. 



3628. Art is one universal business. Beautiful is 

 that, which represents the world within a fragment or 

 portion of the world. 



3629. There is also one natural beauty unconscious 

 formation of the world's laws. 



3630. The highest natural beauty is the universal 

 portion of nature, i. e. Man. 



Man expresses the ultimate goal or purpose of Nature's 

 design. 



3631. The terminus or goal of Nature is, in Man to 

 revert again into herself. The human countenance most 

 perfectly repeats the trunk, and again reverts wholly 

 and actually into the trunk. That human countenance 

 is beautiful, in which the vertebral column runs back 

 again parallel with the vertebral column of the trunk. 

 The facial vertebral column is the nose. 



3632. The face is beautiful, whose nose runs parallel 

 to the spine. 



No human face has grown unto this estate, but every 

 nose makes an acute angle with the spine. The facial 

 angle is, as is well known, 80. 



What as yet no Man has remarked, and what is not 

 to be remarked either without our view of the cranial 

 signification, the old artists have felt through inspiration. 

 They have not only made the facial angle a right angle, 



