Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their development, causal relations, historic and national peculiaritiesFinck, Henry T.
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Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their development, causal relations, historic and national peculiarities
Finck, Henry T.
Beauty, Personal; Love
Crossing 318
III. Romantic Love 322
IV. Mental Refinement 324
EVOLUTION OF TASTE 327
Savage Notions of Beauty 327
Non-Æsthetic "Ornamentation" 328
Personal Beauty as a Fine Art 329
Negative Tests of Beauty 331
(_a_) Animals 331
(_b_) Savages 333
(_c_) Degraded Classes 333
(_d_) Age and Decrepitude 334
(_e_) Disease 334
Positive Tests of Beauty 338
(_a_) Symmetry 338
(_b_) Gradation 339
(_c_) Curvature 341
Masculine and Feminine Beauty 342
(_d_) Delicacy 343
(_e_) Smoothness 344
(_f_) Lustre and Colour 345
(_g_) Expression, Variety, Individuality 348
THE FEET 351
Size 351
Fashionable Ugliness 352
Tests of Beauty 354
A Graceful Gait 357
Evolution of the Great Toe 359
National Peculiarities 361
Beautifying Hygiene 362
Dancing and Grace 364
Dancing and Courtship 365
Evolution of Dance Music 367
The Dance of Love 369
Ballet-Dancing 370
THE LOWER LIMBS 371
Muscular Development 371
Beautifying Exercise 372
Fashionable Ugliness 375
The Crinoline Craze 376
THE WAIST 378
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