The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-13
THE END.
EDUCATION md BEAUTY.
They Are Natural Inc mie--The Ugliness
OF Royalty.

From The Spectator
1t may even be doubted. strange as many
will deem the assertion, whether continuous
education will 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 if it were de-
monstIabIe consequence of the new society.
The most beautiful black race In Africa,
tribe in Nyassalaud. on whose looks even mis-
sonaries grow eloquent who ara really
as perfect as bronze statues. are as ignorant
as fishes. and. T. )uGh they have discovered
the use Of fire, haze never risen to the concep-
ton OF clothes OF any kind. The Otahcitan,
when discovered. was as uncutured as the
Papuan now Is. vet the former approached as
nearly 10 positive beauty as the alter does 10
positive deformity. The keenest race in Asia
in character, the Chinese, is decidedly the
uGliest Of mankind; while the hIndoo. II SUI
ilciently fed. IS. oven. when as ign rant as an
animal. almost invariably handsome
The Circassians who know nothing. and are
rather stupid than exceptionally Intelligent
than the Germans. who. though the best train
ed people in the world. display ma krd com
monness OF feature. as II the great sculptor
nature had used good clay, but taken no trou-
BILE about the modelling. Some Of the very
ATTEST among them belong to the HAT nosed.
puliy-cbeeked, loose Tipped variety.
The keenest race in he world. and probably
the one most susceptible Of culture. the Jow.
presents lev tyres OF beauty being usually ut
in physique, as in thou :ht. that race OCCASION
ally throws ont tralScendent examples. The
tanned Arabs OF GRypt who seem TO possess
poor brains aiId. OF course, have no education,
are often extraordinarily han Isomo: while in
1850 the gran est head N Asia, heat which
every artist copied a his ideal OF Jove. belong
ed 10 an Arab horse dealer, VINO. outside his
trade. knew nOthlng.
No modern men OF culture would pretend, in
mere perectness OF form, 10 rival the old
Greek athletes, who in telloctually Were proba-
bly, animals. or tho lerserKtrs who were or
h.. mn mi hur Il. lei .ttt,F
The royal caste, which has been cultivated Tor
n thousand years. seldom produces beautiful
men. and still schooner beautiful women:
most princosses, though sometimes dgnli.d.
having hcen marked "a 10 features by u GER
tain ordinarness o.ten wanting IN the poor,
and especially tho. moor OF certain DISTRICTS
ike iJnvon IL hnGanI, Gad Aries and
MarseIcs ii. Frame. Devon is 10 bet
ter, taught than suffolk, bat marx the
last century the abl"st mon IN Europe wore
remhrka6lG; 10 crrta,n sHHperIlui,y Of iiesh;
most absurd example, and in our own timc.
Intellect even hereditary intellect. is constant
from distinction. some OF the ablest men bong
externally heavy and gross and some OF tho
aplsst women marked by IN nd ipaeni enoss Of
the fingers in putty. No stranger ever saw
Tcnnyson without turning round, but Brown
Ing would have passed unnotlced In any Eng
The air OF phvsical refinement. which is
what continuous culture should give T. IRE.
cultivated AS II IS al-o IN many aistocratic
families. Indeed, ,tllouGh Gus o must mean
more or less hereditary culture IL il doubtful
II It secures beauty 1t does not in tho ROYAL
houses. and in ANY regiment, thogEh an Officer
or two will probably stand first, The proportion
o splendid men will be found greater among
the non -commlS soncd tina the commissioned
officers Science can no more make Treas
sian than one-eEged race and the physical
attributes like the grace OF God. are indie
pendent Of thinking. II they were not wo
shou some day have a race OF heroes indeed.
stalking among lesser men rs Kingsley de-
picts his Cloths stalking among tho far more
drIans. An entire race ike Alexander tho
Great. the man II whom, OF all MANKIND. brain
highest porfcrtness, would soon be more in
10 orabl, than tho "Nenctiau" aristocracy
whom 'ir Disraeli delided, denounced. and
wolshipped.