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Identifier: welldressedwoma00ecob (find matches)
Title: The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Ecob, Helen Gilbert
Subjects: Women's clothing Women
Publisher: New York, Fowler & Wells Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image:
ining the conditions which produced this peculiar
aesthetic gift. The Greek appreciation of the beau-
tiful was not indigenous, but was the outcome
of various happy circumstances. The grandeur of
Grecian scenery kindled the Hellenic imagination.
Every freedman was trained in logic, rhetoric, and
oratory, and this developed the higher intellectual
faculties. But their peculiar reverence for the
physical man grew out of the Greek religion. The
great national games were religious services whose
aim was to show the resemblance of the gods tom
en and to develop the resemblance of men to the
gods. Their worship was the attainment of the
spiritual through the perfection of the physical.
The entire nation gathered to witness the games,
for which preparation had been made in even the
most remote isles. The candidates were obliged to
prove that no stain, civil or religious, was on their
character, and that they had been through the pre-
scribed course of gymnasium training. Praxiteles,

184 THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN.
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Fig. 50.—Venus of Milo.

BEAUTY OF FORM. 185

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