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16 grave, the pure, the wise, the good, the well­-developed, are always beautiful.

Beauty then is spiritual, moral, intellectual, as well as physical. Without beauty of the mind and heart, beauty of person is only evanescent, if indeed it can exist at all. A loving heart brightens and glorifies the plainest face. This is a pearl of great price wherever it is found, and should be treated with reverence as a gem that reflects a ray of the divinity.

Upon this subject Mr. Thomson has the follow­ing judicious reflections:—"If we should see a per­son employ himself with a sledge-hammer to dash the enchanting form of the Venus de Medici to pieces, break her lovely limbs and deface her beauteous features, we should not hesitate for a moment to pronounce him a savage barbarian, without taste, feeling, or sentiment, though his frenzy was employed only on a senseless piece of stone. What, then, must we think of the diabolical savage who exercises the worst of all cruelties, because the most lasting and affecting to both body and mind, on the most beautiful and amiable of all creatures on this side heaven, made expressly for his happiness, solace, and delight, by first corrupting and betray­ing her, and then basely abandoning her to perish in want, pain, wretchedness, and misery?"