CHAPTER XVI. COMBINATIONS AND TRANSITIONS OF THE THREE As to the COMBINATIONS of beauty, it must now be observed, that some one of these species of beauty always characterizes the same individual during every stage of life; and, to the experienced observer, it never is difficult to say which of them predominates. Attention to the preceding principles will render this easy. It is right to mention here the cause of this general predominance of one species of beauty over the rest. It depends on this, that the slightest original or accidental preponderance of strength in one system above that of the rest, though unobserved at first, leads to a more frequent employment of its functions, and therefore to a more perfect development of its organs, until at last the disproportion between these and those of the other systems, becomes characteristic of the individual. In a truly beautiful woman, none of the systems described can exist in a great degree of degrad |