Science and Ugliness 



astonished beholders as an agglomeration of 

 triangles, parallelograms, and rhombs, and 

 in its prostration before Science essays as a 

 final perfection to assimilate man's body to 

 the figure of the Ass's bridge in Euclid, thus 

 consummating, I suppose, the felicitous union 

 of Science and art. 



Sculpture has followed, and we have now 

 placed before us for admiration Venuses cut 

 square like the wooden figures of Noah and 

 his family in children's arks only not quite 

 so lifelike of course a dressmaker's dummy 

 manikin approximates more precisely to the 

 real form of women even to the round base 

 that represents the feet ; but the object of 

 the master is not to glorify Nature but to insult 

 it, and to shew what the ideal woman is like in 

 a world dominated by Science instead of art. 



Look where we will in all walks of life, 

 beauty is discredited and ugliness acclaimed. 



And yet a few, a dwindling band, con- 

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