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Comparatively small. But, on the other 

 hand, there seems to be as little reason for 

 making them comparatively large ; for, we 

 pi ust naturally suppose, in the human figure 

 particularly, some just standard of height 

 and proportion; in which case, all who pos- 

 sessed the qualities of beauty, but were 

 above that standard, would, as far as size is 

 concerned, begin to rise into grandeur ; 

 and all below it, to sink into prettiness — 

 beauty being the golden mean. It must be 

 owned, however, that, like the French, thd 

 more ancient Greeks appear to have consi- 

 dered large stature as almost a requisite of 

 beauty, not only in men, but in AVomen : 

 this, I think, may have arisen from the very 

 high estimation in which strength of body, 

 and, consequently, largeness of stature, was 

 held in those ancient times, when the words 

 which signify beauty, and beautiful, were 

 first made use of; and thence that combin- 

 ed sense of the words may have remained, 

 when, from the high perfection and refine- 

 ment of the arts, a more just and delicate* 



