Romantic Love and Personal Beauty / Their development, causal relations, historic and national peculiarities

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CONTENTS

EVOLUTION OF ROMANTIC LOVE

COSMIC ATTRACTION AND CHEMICAL AFFINITIES

FLOWER LOVE AND BEAUTY

IMPERSONAL AFFECTION

PERSONAL AFFECTIONS

OVERTONES OF ROMANTIC LOVE

LOVE AMONG ANIMALS

LOVE AMONG SAVAGES

HISTORY OF LOVE

LOVE IN EGYPT

ANCIENT HEBREW LOVE

ANCIENT ARYAN LOVE

GREEK LOVE

ROMAN LOVE

MEDIAEVAL LOVE

MODERN LOVE

CONJUGAL AFFECTION AND ROMANTIC LOVE

OLD MAIDS

BACHELORS

GENIUS AND MARRIAGE

GENIUS AND LOVE

GENIUS IN LOVE

INSANITY AND LOVE

THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE

KISSING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

HOW TO WIN LOVE

HOW TO CURE LOVE

NATIONALITY AND LOVE

SCHOPENHAUER'S THEORY OF LOVE

FOUR SOURCES OF BEAUTY

EVOLUTION OF TASTE

THE FEET

THE LOWER LIMBS

THE WAIST

CHEST AND BOSOM

NECK AND SHOULDER

ARM AND HAND

JAW, CHIN, AND MOUTH

THE CHEEKS

THE EARS

THE NOSE

THE FOREHEAD

THE COMPLEXION

THE EYES

THE HAIR

BRUNETTE AND BLONDE

NATIONALITY AND BEAUTY

FRENCH BEAUTY

ITALIAN BEAUTY

SPANISH BEAUTY

GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN BEAUTY

ENGLISH BEAUTY

AMERICAN BEAUTY

INDEX

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ROMANTIC LOVE
AND
PERSONAL BEAUTY

THEIR
DEVELOPMENT, CAUSAL RELATIONS,
HISTORIC AND NATIONAL PECULIARITIES
BY
HENRY T. FINCK
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1902
All rights reserved
COPYRIGHT, 1887
BY HENRY T. FINCK

Set Up and Electrotyped, 1887
New Edition, February, 1903
Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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