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As a state of savagism increases the injurious influence of climates which are unfriendly to the complexion of fine proportions of the human constitution; civilization, on the other hand, by its innumerable arts and conveniences, contributes to correct that hurtful influence. The comfortable protection of clothing and lodging, - the plenty and nutritious 

strength of an Anglo-American, in single combat, is usually superior to that of an indian of the same size. The muscles, likewise, on which the fine proportions of the person so much depend, are generally smaller and more lax in them than among a civilized people who are not corrupted by luxury, or debilitated by sedentary occupations. Their limbs, therefore, though straight, are less beautifully turned. - A deception often passes upon the senses in judging of a beauty of savages; and it is often very injudiciously exaggerated in description. We do not expect beauty in savage life. When, therefore, we happen to perceive it, the contrast which it presents to us with the usual condition of men in that state affects the mind with a degree of suprize that very much promotes the deception. And the exalted descriptions of savage beauty which we sometimes read are truly only by comparison with savages. There is a difference, in this respect, between man, and the inferior animals which were formed to run wild in the forest. They are always most beautiful when they enjoy their native liberty. They decay and droop when attempted to be confined and domesticated. But man, being designed for society, and civilization, attains, in that state, the greatest beauty of the human form, as well as the highest perfection of his whole nature. 

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qualities of food, and the skilful means of preparing it for use, and rendering it more healthful, - a country freed from noxious effuvia, and subjected to cultivation, - the constant study of elegance, with improved ideas of a standard of beauty for the human form, - and the continual effort made to approximate this standard, in ourselves, or to form our children to it by a proper culture, give an immense advantage, in this respect, to cultivated society over save life.

2. I come now to observe, what is of much more importance on this part of the subject, that all the features of the human countenance are modified and its whole expression, in a great measure, formed by the state of society in which men exist.

Every idea, and every emotion which is excited in the mind, affects, in some degree, the features of the countenance, the index of our feelings, and contributes to form its infinitely various lineaments. Paucity of ideas, and of objects to call forth the exercise of the understanding or the passions, marks the countenance with a vacant and unmeaning aspect. Agreeable and cultivated scenes enliven and animate the features, and tend to render them regular and soft. Wild and solitary forests impress on