Identifier: beautyofformgrac00steeuoft (find matches)
Title: Beauty of form and grace of vesture
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Steele, Frances Mary Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele
Subjects: Beauty, Personal Clothing and dress
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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irest, because purest and thought-fullest, trained in all high knowledge, in all court-eous art, in dance, in song, in sweet wit, in loftylearning, in loftier courage, in loftiest love; ablealike to cheer, to enchant, to save the souls ofmen. Washington Irving says: It is the divinitywithin that makes the divinity without. Inwardgrace, then outward beauty. Every part of the human body serves as ameans of expression to the soul. No membercan be neglected in the attainment of an harmo-nious whole. We give, unconsciously, favorableor unfavorable impressions by the way we carryourselves. We take the same impressions fromthe unstudied bearing of others. Our very ges-tures, repeated, become attitudes, attitudes crystal-lize into bearing, and bearing helps to mouldcharacter. Character is the one important thingin human life, the object of our being here, andthe culmination of all lifes discipline. The use of the intellect has a powerful effectupon the moulding and chiselling of the features.
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Fig. 15.— Ihc Thicc Fates BEAUTY OF FORM. 53 removing the marks of sensuality, and replacingthem by the fineness of a lofty self-control. Itsubstitutes the signs of energy and thoughtfulnessfor vacancy and insipidit\\ It makes the eyekeen and bright, the mouth sensitive and delicate.There is not a virtue which, continually exercised,will not leave new fairness upon the features. Abeautiful body presupposes a healthy body, inperfect condition for its use, embracing colour, tex-. turc, animation, motion, and intelligence. Believing there can be no beauty without health,and no highest beauty without spiritual, intellect-ual and moral excellence, we are confident thatin trying to attain beauty of form and face andclothing, we shall secure other most desirableends. When cultivated people refer to standards ofbeauty, they are often met with the expression: It is only a matter of taste. Precisely, as Mr. Finck says: good tasteand bad taste. Every healthy soul is made to recognize beautyin

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