vii, No. 2, p. 206; also private letter.)
At the same time it must be remembered that beauty and the
conception of beauty have developed on a wider basis than that of
the sexual impulse only, and also that our conceptions of the
beautiful, even as concerns the human form, are to some extent
objective, and may thus be in part reduced to law. Stratz, in his
books on feminine beauty, and notably in _Die Schoenheit des
Weiblichen Koerpers_, insists on the objective element in beauty.
Papillault, again, when discussing the laws of growth and the
beauty of the face, argues that beauty of line in the face is
objective, and not a creation of fancy, since it is associated
with the highest human functions, moral and social. He remarks on
the contrast between the prehistoric man of
Chancelade,--delicately made, with elegant face and high
forehead,--who created the great Magdalenian civilization, and
his seemingly much more powerful, but less beautiful,
predecessor, the man of Spy, with enormous muscles and powerful
jaws. (_Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie_, 1899, p. 220.)
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by
the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression
of health.
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