BEAUTY: ILLUSTRATED CHIEFLY BY AN 141 ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF BEAUTY IN WOMAN. PRECEDED BY A CRITICAL VIEW OF THE GENERAL HYPOTHESES RESPECTING BEAUTY, BY HUME, HOGARTH, BURKE, KNIGHT, ALISON, ETC. AND FOLLOWED BY A SIMILAR VIEW OF THE HYPOTHESES OF BEAUTY IN SCULPTURE AND PAINTING, BY ALEXANDER WALKER, AUTHOR OF "PHYSIOGNOMY FOUNDED ON PHYSIOLOGY," "THE NERVOUS SYSTEM," ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY DRAWINGS FROM LIFE, BY HENRY HOWARD, PROFESSOR OF PAINTING TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY; DRAWN ON STONE BY M. GAUCI & R. J. LANE, A.R.A. "E' la bellezza, dopo Dio, il più sublime oggetto, di cui occupar si possa l'umano spirito." Second Edition, Revised. WINCKELMANN. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. M DCCC XLVI. DEDICATION. ΤΟ GEORGE BIRKBECK, M.D. F.G.S. PRESIDENT OF THE LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, &c. &c. &c. A department of science, which in many respects must be regarded as new, cannot so properly be dedicated to any one as to the inventor of the best mode of diffusing scientific knowledge among the most meritorious and most oppressed classes of society. When the enemies of freedom, in order effectually to blind the victims of their spoliation, imposed a tax upon knowledge,-You rendered the acquirement of science easy by the establish ment of Mechanics' Institutions, -You gave the first and greatest impulse to that diffusion of knowledge which will render the repetition of such a conspiracy against humanity impossible. You more than once also wrested a reluctant concession, in behalf of untaxed knowledge, from the men who had evidently succeeded, in some degree, to the spirit, as well as to the office, of the original conspirators, and who unwisely hesitated between the bad interest which is soon felt by all participators in expensive government, and their dread of the new and triumphant power of public opinion, before which they know and feel that they are but as chaff before the whirlwind. For these services, accept this respectful dedication, as the expression of an homage, in which I am sure that I am joined by thousands of Britons. Nor, in writing this, on a subject of which your extensive knowledge enables you so well to judge, am I without a peculiar and personal motive. I gratefully acknowledge that, in one of the most earnest and strenuous mental efforts I ever made, |
