, 1890-09-18
EDUCATION AND BEAUTY.

Some Examples which Go 20 Show That
They Are Natural Enemies.
Ii may even be doubted, strange rs
many will deem the assertion, whether
continuous education will produce
beauty, whether the growth of intelli-
gence will even in ages yield the physi-
cal result which we notice the authors
of Utopias always assume, as If it were
a demonstrable consequence of the
new society.
The most beautiful black race In
Africa, a tribe in Nyassaland, on whose
looks even missionaries grow eloquent,
who are really as perfect as bronze
statues, are as ignorant as fishes, and
though they have discovered the use
of fire, have never risen to the concep-
ton of clothes of any kind. The Ota-
heitan when discovered was as uncut
tured as the Papuan now is, yet the
former approached as nearly to posi-
tive beauty as the latter does to posi-
tive deformity. The keenest race liz
Asia, and as all who know them assert,
the strongest in character, the Chinese,
is decidedly the ugliest of mankind,
while the Hindoo il sufficiently fed Is,
even when as ignorant as an animal.
almost invariably handsome.
The Circassians, who know nothing
and are rather stupid than exception
ally intelligent, are physically a fault
less race, far more so than the Ger
mans, who, though the best trained
people in the world, display a marked
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sculptor Nature had used good clay,
but taken no trouble about the model
ing. Some of the very ablest among
them belong TO the fiat nosed. puffy
checked, loose Tipped variety.
The keenest face in the world, and
probably the one most susceptible Of
culture, the jew, presents few types Of
beauty, being usually at once hooked
nosed and flabby checked, though in
physique, as in thought, hat race oeca-
s~ionally throws out transcendent ex-
amples. The tanned Arabs of Egypt,
who seem to possess poor brains, and
of course have no education, are often
extraordinarily handsome; while in
1860 the grandest head in Asia, a head
which every artist copied AZ his ideal Of
Jove, belonged to an Arab horse dealer.
who, outside his trade. knew nothing
No modern men OF culture would
pretend, in mere perfectness of form,
to rival the old Greek athletes, who in
tellectually were probably animals, or
the Bersekars, who were for the most
part only hard drinking soldiers. The
royal caste, which has been cultivated
for "A thousand years, seldom produces
beautiful men, and still schooner beauti-
full women; most -princesses, though
sometimes dignifed, having been mark
ed as TO features by a certain ordinari-
ness often wanting in the poor, and
especially the poor Of certain districts,
like Devon in England, and Aries and
Marseilles in France. Devon is no bet
ter taught than Suffolk, but mark the
difference In peasant forms.
In the last century the ablest men in
Europe were remarkable for a certain
superfiuity of flesh, Of which Gibbons
face is the best known and most absurd
example. and in our own time intellect,
ven hereditary intellect, is constantly
found ASSOCIATED from good looks and
even from distinction, soUo of tho
ablest men being exterD~ly heavy and
gross, and some 'lest women
marked Nv -. ~ of check
and chin as if they had been carved by
the fingers in putty. No stranger ever
saw Tennyuon without turning round,
but Browning would have passed IN
noticed in any English or Austrian
crowd. Spectator.