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It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. "Old ladies" are already becoming rare. In a few years, we may well believe, they will be extinctive．Ugliness is one of the symptoms of disease.(1)____ In so far as the campaign for more beauty is also a campaign for more health, it is admirable but genuinely successful.(2)____ Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of health is intrinsically poorer quality than the genuine article.(3)____ The apparatus for mimicking the symptoms of health is now within the reach of every moderately prosperity person; the knowledge of the way in which real health can be achieved is growing, and will in time, no doubt, universally acted upon.(4)____(5)____ When that happy moment comes, will every woman be beautiful-as beautiful, at any rate, as the natural shape of his features, with or without surgical and chemical aid permits?(6)____
The answer is obvious: No. For real beauty is as much an
affair of the inner as the outer self.(7)____ The beauty of a porcelain jar is the matter of shape, of colour, of surface texture.(8)____ The jar may be empty or tenanted by spiders, full of honey or stinking slime-itmakes no difference as to its beauty or ugliness. But a woman is lively, and her beauty is therefore not skin deep.(9)____(10)____ The surface of the human vessel is affected by the nature of its spiritual contents.
