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ty of beauty, so the want of transparency, 

 or what may be termed muddiness, is the 

 most general and efficient cause of ugli- 

 ness. A colour, for instance, may be harsh, 

 glaring, tawdry, yet please many eyes, and 

 by some be called beautiful ; but a muddy 

 colour, no one ever was pleased with, or 

 honoured with that title. If this idea be 

 just, there seems to be as much analogy 

 between the causes of ugliness in colour, 

 and in form, as the two cases could well 

 admit; in the first, ugliness is said to arise 

 from the thickening of what should be 

 pure and transparent; in the second, from 

 clogging and filling up those nicely marked 

 variations, of which beauty and purity of 

 outline are the result. It is hardly neces- 

 sary to say, that I have here been speaking 

 of colours as considered separately ; not of 

 those numberless beauties and effects, 

 which are produced by their numberless 

 connections and oppositions. 



Ugliness, like beauty, has no prominent 

 features : it is in some degree regular and 

 uniform ; and at a distance, and even on a 



