CHAPTER IV.--Nature of Beauty 46 CHAPTER V.--Standard of Taste in Beauty 56 CHAPTER VI.--The Elements of Beauty 72 SECTION I.--Elements of Beauty in Inanimate Beings 74 SECTION II.--Elements of Beauty in Living Beings 88 SECTION III.--Elements of Beauty in Thinking Beings 93 SECTION IV.--Elements of Beauty as employed in Objects of Art 103 Beauty of Useful Objects 104 Beauty of Ornamental Objects 108 Beauty of Intellectual Objects 113 Summary of this Chapter 120 APPENDIX to the Preceding Chapters 123 SECTION I.--Nature of the Picturesque 123 SECTION II.--Cause of Laughter 125 SECTION III.--Cause of the Pleasure received from Representations exciting Pity 131 CHAPTER VII.--Anatomical and Physiological Principles 139 CHAPTER VIII.--Of the Ages of Women in relation to Beauty 152 CHAPTER IX.--Of the Causes of Beauty in Woman 166 CHAPTER X.--Of the Standard of Beauty in Woman 171 CHAPTER XI.--Of the Three Species of Female Beauty generally viewed 185 CHAPTER XII.--First Species of Beauty: Beauty of the Locomotive System 189 First Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty 191 Second Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty 197 Third Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty 198 CHAPTER XIII.--Second Species of Beauty: Beauty of the Nutritive System 203 First Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty 208 Second Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty 210 Third Variety or Modification of this Species of Beauty 212