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300 which the painter found in nature, and thus it might with propriety be termed rather the model of mankind than of a man. It was not, however, the mechanical election of limbs and features; but the ebullition of an heated fancy that burt forth, and the fine enes and enlarged undertanding of the artit elected the olid matter, which he drew into this glowing focus.

I oberved that it was not mechanical, becaue a whole was produced—a model of that grand implicity, of thoe concurring energies, which arret our attention and command our reverence. For only inipid lifeles beauty is produced by a ervile copy of even beautiful nature. Yet, independent of thee obervations, I believe that the human form mut have been far more beautiful than it is at preent, becaue extreme indolence, barbarous ligatures, and many caues, which forcibly act on it, in our luxurious tate of ociety, did not retard its expanion, or render it deformed. Exercie and cleanlines appear to be not only the uret means of preerving health, but of promoting beauty, the phyical caues only conidered; yet, this is not ufficient, moral ones mut concur, or beauty will be merely of that rutic kind which blooms on the innocent, wholeome, countenances of ome country people, whoe minds have not been exercied. To render the peron perfect, phyical and moral beauty ought to be attained at the ame time; each lending and receiving force by the combination. Judgment mut reide on the brow, affection and fancy beam in the eye, and humanity curve the check, or vain is the parkling of the finet&ensp;