ANALYSIS os BEAUTY, 15

- Fitness of parts also constitutes and distinguishes in agreat measure the characteristics of objects; as for ex-ample, the race-horse differs as much in quality, or cha-racter, from the war-horse, as to its. figure, as the Her-cules from the Mercury.

' The race-horse, having all its parts of such dimen-sions as best sit the purposes of {peed,, acquires on thataccount a consistent character of one fort of beauty.

To illustrate this, suppose the beautiful head and grace-fully-turn’d neck of the. war-horse were placed on theshoulders of the race-horse, instead of his own aukwardstraight one: it would disgust, and deform, instead ofadding beauty ; because the judgment would condemnit as unfit.

The Hercules, by Glicon +, hath all its parts finely + rig. 3 .fitted for the purposes, os the utmost strength, the tex- p ' l 'ture of the human form will bear. The back, breastand shoulders have huge bones, and muscles adequateto the supposed active strength of its upper parts; butas. less strength was required for the lower parts, the ju-dicious: sculptor, contrary to all modern rule of enlargeing every part in proportion, lefien’d the size of.themuseles gradually down towards the feet; and for thefame reason made the neck larger in circumference thanany part of the head; otherwise the figure^wo.uld have sfy- -)

been burden’d with an urmeceflary weight, which would ^ / ■have been a draw-back from his strength, and in con-sequence of that, from its characteristic beauty.

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