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be such a thing as happiness 

 without health, or good health 

 without an ample chest. Hand- 

 some extremities are indica- 

 tions of native gentility, and 

 are not found often connected 

 with mal-formation in other re- 

 spects. All other things being 

 equal, a man should make 

 choice of a wife whose form and 

 extremities come as near as pos- 

 sible to those of the Venus de 

 Medicis (^Jig. 133.); and a wo- 

 man should choose a husband of a form, and with extremities, 

 coming as near as possible to those of the Apollo Belvedere 



Fig. 131. Defective 

 Facial Angle. 



Fig. 132. Angle of 

 Intelligence. 



Fig. 133. Venus, or Ideal Female Beauty. 



Fig. 134. Apollo, or Ideal Male Beauty. 



{Jig. 134.). Full-sized statues of these models of beauty and per- 

 fection ought to be in every garden, and in the hall of every 

 gentleman's house ; and casts of them (which may be had very 

 perfect of their kind at 7^. each) on the chimney-piece of 

 every cottage, as a beau ideal to operate on the imagination on 

 the principle of the peeled rods of Jacob. * 



* Long-continued tuars tend to degenerate the human race, by laying hold 

 of the tallest men, and those possessed of the most robust health, and sweeping 

 them oiF without their leaving offspring. It would be much better for the 

 human race to select for soldiers none but little men ; or to admit all capable 

 men, and, when the capacity was equal, to take little men in preference. (Jre- 

 nales de la Hygiene Piiblique, as quoted in For. Quart. Rev.) 



