Beauty

d we are told that it is in this manner that the Persians have become a beautiful people, and that many tribes

whereas, every improvement depends on the circumstance that the organization of the races subjected to this operat

t of the guards being quartered there, and remaining during several years, the population changed in appearance, and, favored

actual observation, that the young female-peasants of their neighborhood were much more beautiful than those of other cantons. And, adds this writer, "there can be no doubt t

rate diet, a regular mode of life, favorable education, the guidance and suppression of passions, easy manners, good

temperament is that of the nations of the north; the phlegmatic is that of cold and moist countries; and the bilious is

auses constitutes an essential condition in the production of beauty; and this, with its effect, we find between the 35th and 65th degree of northern latitude, in Persia, the countries bordering upon Caucasus, and principally Tch

its vicinity to the sea, the direction of the winds, the nature of the soil, and all the peculiariti

servations which seem to be important, arise

some, the women of that country were never beautiful. He thence accounted fo

was known of their taste, that it was considered as a paradox. Travellers, accordingly, so

he ancient and beautiful cast of countenance among the men, and not among the w

ions, it would seem to be only a particular application of a more general law unkno

of England, we find precisely the reverse. The strong features, the dark curled hair and the muscular form, of the highlander, are as unsuitable to

hips of mountain life are favorable to the stronger development of the locomotive system, which ought more or less to characterize the m

and rich soils, but are remarkable for shortness of legs; while, in higher and drier s

powerful in regard to beauty. Abundance, or rather a proper mediocr

civilization. Women, accordingly, of consumma

ede its development when their exercise does not compel to laboriou