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  BEAUTY;
  ILLUSTRATED CHIEFLY BY AN
  ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION
  OF BEAUTY IN WOMAN,

  BY ALEXANDER WALKER,
  AUTHOR OF "INTERMARRIAGE," "WOMAN," "PHYSIOGNOMY FOUNDED
  ON PHYSIOLOGY," "THE NERVOUS SYSTEM," ETC.

  EDITED BY AN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN

  NEW YORK:
  HENRY G. LANGLEY, 8 ASTOR-HOUSE.
  1845.




Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, BY J. & H. G.
LANGLEY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern
District of New York

STEREOTYPED BY J. S. REDFIELD,

_13 Chambers Street, New York_




DEDICATION.


TO GEORGE BIRBECK, M.D., F.G.S.,

PRESIDENT OF THE LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, &c., &c., &c.


A department of science, which in many respects must be regarded as new,
cannot so properly be dedicated to any one as to the inventor of the best
mode of diffusing scientific knowledge among the most meritorious and most
oppressed classes of society.

When the enemies of freedom, in order effectually to blind the victims of
their spoliation, imposed a tax upon knowledge, you rendered the
acquirement of science easy by the establishment of mechanics'
institutions--you gave the first and greatest impulse to that diffusion of
knowledge which will render the repetition of such a conspiracy against
humanity impossible.

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