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distinguish the human organism from the animal,
and which mark sex distinctions, and,
most of all, race distinctions. He thinks individuals
with these characteristics are best suited
for their life work. Accordingly it is the
result of natural selection that exactly those
individuals are found most beautiful and are
most desired, who first as human beings
best fulfil the general demands of the human
organism, as sexual beings fulfil those
of their sex, and as members of the race
are best suited to the conditions which surround
them. In the struggle for existence,
those are overcome, who are descended from
human beings, whose instincts of love are
directed to individuals badly adapted to that
struggle; while those who are victorious are
children happily so adapted. In this way,
taste has developed by which, what is best
adapted to environment appears as the highest
beauty. This is equivalent to health, the
power to resist the attacks of the external
world. While every considerable deviation
from the pure type in sex and race, has a
lesser degree of adaptability; that is of health,
and also of beauty.
Another writer has used the foot as an
example of this principle. The small,
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