302 BEAUTY. 



signs of tliese inward virtnes, and the original 

 attraction is no small part of the total reasons that 

 influence him in making his choice. Nature has 

 not implanted these instinctive likes and dislikes 

 in our hearts for nothing; they are there, what- 

 ever people may say, for good reasons, and they 

 are part of the wise provision whereby, on the 

 whole, the efliciency and soundness of our race 

 are kept up from one generation to another. 



It is just the same with the external tokens of 

 strength and vigor in men — the flowing beard, 

 the fine athletic limbs, the agile movements, the 

 frank, hearty, open countenance. What consti- 

 tutes a handsome man is, as a rule, very much the 

 same assemblage of characteristics as constitutes a 

 good oarsman, a good cricketer, a good soldier, 

 and a good workman. Health has been well 

 defined as the ability to do a good day's work ; 

 handsomeness in men might be defined as the 

 external signs of the ability to go on doing a good 

 day's work for the best part of a long lifetime. 

 There are of course cases where beautiful women 

 nnd handsome men are far from physically strong; 

 but in such cases, if we look a little below the 

 surface, we shall generally find that they are 

 handsome, in spite of some particular source of 

 weakness, because most of their other qualities 

 are sound and wholesome. Thus a woman may 

 be very sweet-looking in spite of bad health, 



