...are continually varying the surface of Nature's works, and the invariable general form which Naturo most frequently produces, and always seems to intend...same tree, though no two can be found exactly alike, the general form is invariable : a Naturalist, before ho chose one as a sample, would examine many...

...Hogarth, the existence of an objective standard of beauty. " Ideal Beauty," according to his view, " is the invariable general form which nature most frequently...produces, and always seems to intend in her productions. ... In every particular species there are various central forms, undeniably beautiful," ..." but perfect...

...Hogarth, the existence of an objective standard of beauty. " Ideal Beauty," according to his view, "is the invariable general form which nature most frequently...produces, and always seems to intend in her productions. ... In every particular species there are various central forms, undeniably beautiful," ..." but perfect...

...Hogarth, the existence of an objective standard of beauty. " Ideal Beauty," according to his view, " is the invariable general form which nature most frequently...produces, and always seems to intend in her productions. ... In every particular species there are various central forms, undeniably beautiful," ..." but perfect...

...choses de meme espece." So beauty consists in the avoidance of the accidental, and the reproduction of the " invariable general form which Nature most frequently...produces, and always seems to intend in her productions." This conception of beauty depends directly on Burner's belief in a " sens commun," which was his chief...