Horae Sabbaticae Reprint of Articles Contributed to the Saturday Review volume
Horae Sabbaticae Reprint of Articles Contributed to the Saturday Review volume
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On similar grounds he refutes the notion that utility or perfection is the cause of beauty, and he proceeds, in strict accordance with the whole tenor of his theories on all subjects, to add that beauty cannot be described as a property or test of virtue. ' This loose and inaccurate manner of speaking has therefore misled us both in the theory of taste and of morals, and induced us to remove the science of our duties from their proper basis (our reason, our relations, and our necessities), to r...est it upon foundations altogether visionary and unsub- VI THE WORKS OF BTJRKE 101 stantial. ' He concludes from all this that ' beauty is for the greater part some quality in bodies acting mechanically upon the human mind by the inter- vention of the senses. ' The physical qualities which produce beauty are comparative smallness, smooth- ness, variety in the direction of the parts (the neck or bosom of a woman), the absence of angularity, delicacy of frame without any remarkable appearance of strength, soft but clear and bright colour, varie- gated if glaring.
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On similar grounds he refutes the notion that utility or perfection is the cause of beauty, and he proceeds, in strict accordance with the whole tenor of his theories on all subjects, to add that beauty cannot be described as a property or test of virtue. ' This loose and inaccurate manner of speaking has therefore misled us both in the theory of taste and of morals, and induced us to remove the science of our duties from their proper basis (our reason, our relations, and our necessities), to r...est it upon foundations altogether visionary and unsub- VI THE WORKS OF BTJRKE 101 stantial. ' He concludes from all this that ' beauty is for the greater part some quality in bodies acting mechanically upon the human mind by the inter- vention of the senses. ' The physical qualities which produce beauty are comparative smallness, smooth- ness, variety in the direction of the parts (the neck or bosom of a woman), the absence of angularity, delicacy of frame without any remarkable appearance of strength, soft but clear and bright colour, varie- gated if glaring.
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