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II. AUTISTIC DIVISION.
ifl^OT only was the Beard intended to serve the im:
$X portant purposes just described; hut, combining
beauty with utility, to impart manly grace and free finish
to the male face. To its picturesqueness Poets and Paint-
ers, the most competent judges, have borne universal tes-
timony. It is indeed impossible to view a series of bearded^
portraits, however indifferently executed, without feeling
that they possess dignity, gravity, freedom, vigour, and
completeness; while in looking on a row of razored faces,
however illustrious the originals, or skilful the artists, a
sense of artificial conventional bareness is experienced.
Addison gives vent to the same notion, when he makes
Sir Roger de Coverley point to a venerable bust in West-
minster Abbey, and ask " whether our forefathers did not
look much wiser in their Beards, than we without them ?"
and say, " for my part, when I am in my gallery in the
country, and see my ancestors, who many of them died
