Abstract
IN dealing with the subject, or, rather, the group of subjects, here indicated, Mr. Finck seems to have had before him a twofold object, scientific and practical. On the scientific side he deals with romantic love, showing (a) that it is a recent growth, (b) what are its conditions, and (c) what are the conditions of beauty as essential to romantic love. From a practical point of view he (a) gives rules for health, which is essential to beauty and therefore to romantic love, and (b) insists upon the necessity of free choice in love being left to young people. Let us see briefly what he has to tell us upon these points.
Romantic Love and Personal Beauty.
By H. T. Finck. Two Vols. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1887.)
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RICHARDS, F. Romantic Love and Personal Beauty . Nature 37, 149–150 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037149a0
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