Copley Society (Boston, Mass.) · [Boston, Press of G.H. Ellis, etc. · leaf 155
-sociated. The relatively perfect human beauty is theunion of both symmetries; the relatively perfecthuman ugliness, the union of both opposites of sym-metry. An outer symmetry may yet accompany acrooked soul, or else, as in the Portrait of an OldMan with a Bulbous Nose, by Ghirlandajo, a wantof… … i6o 1 beins heads are not beautiful in the plastic sense ofthe word, but none the less they are singularly inter-esting. For, underneath their very ugliness andvulgarity, we find the thought and feeling that glori-fies everything. The peasant, he, too, has his fashionof being sad or joyous, of…
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