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would indeed be strange if He who made the male face,
and fixed the laws of every feature—clothing it with hair,
as with a garment, should in this last particular have made
an elaborate provision to mar the excellency of His own
work ! Nothing indeed but the long effeminizing of our
faces could have given rise 'to the present shaven ideal—
to the forgetfulness of the true standard of masculine
beauty of expression, which is naturally as antipodal as the
magnetic north and south poles, to that of female loveli-
ness, where delicacy of line, blushing changeable colour,
and eyes that win by seeming not to wish it, are charms
we all feel, and at the same time understand how inappro-
priate they are when applied to the opposite sex; where
the bold enterprizing brow — the deep penetrating eye—
the daring, sagacious nose, and the fleshy but firm mouth,
well supported on the decided projecting chin, proclaim a
being who has an appointed path to tread, and hard rough
work to do, in this world of difficulties and ceaseless tran-
sition.
So much for the general charge; if we examine the
separate features, there can be no question that the upper
part of the face—the most godlike portion—where the
mind sits enthroned, gains in expression by the addition
of and contrast with the Beard; the nose also is thrown
into higher relief, while the eyes acquire both depth and
brilliancy. The mouth, which is especially the seat of the
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