The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-12-20

They Are Natural Enemies--Ths Usit
meas Of Royalty.

Ehsy Aro Natural Enernies--rhs Ugit
meas Of Royalty.
II may even be doubted, strange as
many will deem tho assertion, whether
continuous education viii produce beauty,
whether the growth Of intelligence will
even IN ages yield the physical result
which We notice the authors Of Utopias
always assume, as II It were a demon
strable consequence OF the new society.
The most beautiful black race in
AFRICA, tribe in Nyassaland, on whose
looks even missionaries grow eloquent,
who arc really as perfect as bronze
statues. arc as ignorant as fishes, and,
though they have discovered the use Of
Gre, have never risen to the conception
Of clothes Of any kind. The Otaheitan,
whom discovered, was as uncultured as
the Pspuan now is, yet the former ap-
preached as nearly to positive beauty as
the latter does to positive deformity.
The keenest race In Asia, and, as all
who know them assert, the strongest In
character, the Chinese, ls decidedly the
uglisst Of mankind while the Hlndoo, Il
sunlcientiy fed, is, even when as ignorant
as an animal, almost invariably handa
some.
No modern men Of culture would pre-
tend, In mere perieotness OF form, "a
rival the old Greek athletes, who intel
lectuAlly were probably animals, or the
Berserkars, who were for the most part
only hRrd-drinking soldiers. The royal
caste, which has been cultivated for a
thousand years, seldom produces beauti.
ful men, and still schooner beautiful
women most princesses, though some
times dignifed, having been marked, as
70 features by q certain ordinarinest
often wanting In the poor, and especially
the poor Of certain districts, like Devor
In England, and Aries and Marsellles ir
France. Devon Is no better taught thar
Suffolk, but mark the difference in peas
ant forms. In the last century tht
ableat men IN Europe were remarkable
for . certain superfluity of flesh, Of which
Gibbons face Is the best known and mos
absurd example; and in our own time
intellect, even hereditary intellect, II
| constantly found dissooiated from gooC
looks, and even from distinction, som,
OF the ablest men being externally heavy
and gross, and some Of the ablest womel
marked by an indeflniteness OF cheel
and chin as If they had been carved b,
the hngers In putty. No stranger eve
saw Tennyson without turning round
but Browning would have passed un
noticed In any English or Austrian
crowd.
The air Of physical refinement, whlcl
is what continuous culture should give
Is precisely the air which is often lacking
among the cultivated, as 1t is also Il
many aristocratio families. Indeed
though caste must mean more or les
hereditary culture, 1t Is doubtful II
secures beauty. 1t does not In the roya
houses, and in any regiment, though a
o6scer or two will probably stand first
the proportion OF splendid men viii b
found greater among the non-commlt
eioned than the commissioned officers
An entire race like Alexander, the Great
the man In whom, of all mankind, brai
power and physique were united in thei
Highest perfectness, would soon be NOR
intolerable than the Venetian arii
eooracy whom Mr.. Disraeli derlded, d.
nounced, and worshipped.