Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    OHAPTEE YIL complexion: Complexion, as an element of beauty, is of the very first importance. There are persons upon whom it causes a greater effect than almost all the other elements put together. And, perhaps, it is that element of beaut)'- which is most under the legitimate control of art. I use the word 'legitimate' in opposition to such illegitimate resources of ai't as powder and paint. Complexion depends primarily upon race, family, and individual congenital peculia- rities. But it is the exception for racial, family, or individual congenital modifica- tions of the complexion to be intrinsically ugly, however much they may appear so to the eye of prejudice. Complexion is, of course, gradually altered, usually for the worse, by age. This altera- D 2