The Archive · 1912

The New Beauty

"The faces of the early aristocracy seem more like the peasants' faces of to-day. I would suggest that an unconscious sexual selection has caused this change. The standards of beauty were altered by the Renaissauce, and so now the result is that the faces of the North-western Europeans are more like those of the Greeks and Romans, the upper classes having led the way."

Professor Roberto Michels, of Turin University, read an instructivd paper'on the value of party

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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