Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . 7 in the rugged virtues that he iscompelled to practise, but vastly more in the rugged moralitythat is based on those, and that is as free and independent asthose are compulsory. But the man to whom Nature is provi-dent and tender, grows up handsome, and the more he sym-pathizes with charming objects the more beautiful he 102 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. Yet beauty without sublimity has a worm i the bud ; it isfading and ephemeral; it relapses into effeminacy, and de-generates finally into ugliness, like that of swamps,
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . 7 in the rugged virtues that he iscompelled to practise, but vastly more in the rugged moralitythat is based on those, and that is as free and independent asthose are compulsory. But the man to whom Nature is provi-dent and tender, grows up handsome, and the more he sym-pathizes with charming objects the more beautiful he 102 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. Yet beauty without sublimity has a worm i the bud ; it isfading and ephemeral; it relapses into effeminacy, and de-generates finally into ugliness, like that of swamps, in whichthe animals are not homely, but monstrous. The Arab whoinhabits the delta of the Nile is the very opposite of hospita-ble, for he requires a certain amount of accommodation, andhe imposes it upon Nature, since Nature does not impose itupon him. The ugliness of the camel and the Arab in the deserts hasa tendency to be of the very noblest kind. It contains theelement of self-denial, or of virtue, as before observed, andthis encloses an image of the most exquisite beauty — an ob-ject of reverence, of devotion, of self-sacrifice. Homely hos-pitality entertains a heavenly visitant, an embodied perfection, in every stranger, regardinghim with the same defer-ence, and administering tohis comfort and happiness,as if it would make up forthe heavenly felicities whichhe is supposed to have b
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