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except when these qualities are not in repute in such objects ; 

 but still men of true taste will perceive them ; and any other 

 fashion is mere whim or caprice, and never can excite any other 

 emotion than that of surprise, which is not of long duration. 



Deformity and (ugliness or) disagreeableness are the oppo- 

 sites of beauty. Disagreeableness refers chiefly, if not entirely, 

 to the surface of objects ; and is applied, when they want that 

 smoothness or clearness which we expect in such as pretend to 

 beauty. Deformity, as the term implies, refers to the form, and 

 is applied whenever that deviates from truth. In some respects 

 it is nearly allied to monstrosity ; but this term generally im- 

 plies a deviation from truth, by the addition, or from the ab- 

 sence, of some part or quality. In deformed objects or scenes, 

 every part exists, but with some deviations from the beauty or 

 usual form of such parts. 



Disagreeableness, or deformity, is frequently applied to 

 such scenes as are injurious to mankind from moral qualities, 

 though the scene may be harmonious of itself : thus a fen co- 

 vered with poisonous plants, serpents, and pestilential exhala- 

 tions, forms a unity or whole ; but in relation to the rest of 

 nature it is deformed, and to man it is discordant and produces 

 disgust. 



