Excerpt from Health and Beauty

It is hardly necessary to add what should seem to everyone a matter of course, that the author is indebted for some of his material to distinguished writers on the above-mentioned themes, and to medical and pharmaceutical authorities of the highest class. This work, although written from a medical standpoint, will not overlook, but will expressly include aesthetic considerations, which nature itself presents in connection with the subject. In consequence, some space in it will be found devoted to discussion of the principles of beauty in various departments of art. As artists have seen beauty, they have depicted it, and in so doing, have aided the mass of men in recognizing its principles. As closely related to beauty, not in the abstract, but in the concrete, a chapter will be devoted to the influence of beauty in human society, illustrated, in the case of literature, by quotations drawn from works of poetry and fiction recognized by the whole world as standard.

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