Intermarriage, or, The mode in which, and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, amd deformity, disease and insanity, from others ... / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1838
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    by the animal pleasure merely, inflamed by beauty [that of the vital system being evidently here alluded to]. It may indeed happen after pleasure is gone, and go it must with a swift pace, that a new connexion is formed upon more dignified and more lasting principles: but this is a dangerous experiment; for even supposing good sense, good temper, and external merit of every sort, which is a very favourable supposition, yet a new connexion upon these qualifications is rarely formed: it gene- rally or rather always happens, that such qualifica- tions, the only solid foundation of an indissoluble connexion, are rendered altogether invisible by satiety of enjoyment creating disgust. In the woman possessing this species of beauty, as shown in my work on that subject, the greater developement of its upper part gives to the head, in every view, a pyriform appearance;—the face is generally oval;—the high and pale forehead an- nounces the excellence of the observing faculties ; —the intensely expressive eye is full of sensibiHty ; —in the lower features, modesty and dignity are often united;—she has not the expanded bosom, the general plumpness, nor the beautiful com- plexion of the second species of beauty;—and sh6 boasts easy and graceful motion, rather than the elegant proportion of the first.—The whole figure is characterized by intellectuality and grace.