Falling in Love: With Other Essays On More Exact Branches of Science (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515119234)

" ...]really, in one way or another, an unhealthy departure from the central norma and standard of the race. Good teeth mean good deglutition; a clear eye means an active liver; scrubbiness and undersizedness mean feeble virility. Nor are indications of mental and moral efficiency by any means wanting as recognised elements in personal beauty. A good-humoured face is in itself almost pretty. A pleasant smile half redeems unattractive features. Low, receding foreheads strike us unfavourably. Heavy, stolid, half-idiotic countenances can never be beautiful, however regular their lines and contours. Intelligence and goodness are almost as necessary as health and vigour in order to make up our perfect ideal of a beautiful human face and figure. The Apollo Belvedere is no fool; the murderers in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's are for the most part no beauties. ...]."

Author: Grant Allen
ISBN-10: 1515119238
ISBN-13: 9781515119234
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2015
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.62d