SECT. III. 



Of Manhood. 



1' the age of puberty, or a few years after 

 it, the human body attains its full fea- 

 ture. The growth of fome perfons Hops at the 

 fourteenth or fifteenth year; and, in others, it 

 continues till they arrive at twenty-two or 

 twenty-three years. During this period, moft 

 men are of a (lender make : Their thighs and 

 legs are fmall, and the mufcular parts are not 

 properly filled up. But, by degrees, the muf- 

 cles fwell, the limbs and different parts of the 

 body aflame their proper figure and proportions, 

 and, before the age of thirty, the body, in men, 

 acquires its moft perfect fymmetry. 



But, in women, the body fooner attains this 

 fymmetry. As their fize is fmaller, and their 

 mufcles, and other parts, lefs ftrong, compact, 

 and folid, than thofe of men, they arrive more 

 early a? a ftate of maturity. A woman at twenty 

 years is as perfectly formed as a man at thirty. 



The body of a'well-fhaped man ought to be 

 fquare, the mufcles boldly marked, and the fea- 

 tures of the face diflindly defined. In women, 

 the parts are rounder and fofter, and their features 



are 



