Excerpt from Personal Appearance and the Culture of Beauty: With Hints as to Character It is the soul of art, - its portrayal the aim and end Of artists. Painters, Sculptors, architects, poets - everybody who has any harmony in himself pays homage and court to this divine principle in nature. It is possessed of a subtle fascination. Having seen it, we crave communion with it. AS by instinct we kneel before it, and the more we know Of it the more faithful and joyous the spirit Of our devotion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.