Romantic Love and Personal Beauty / Their development, causal relations, historic and national peculiarities
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- ROMANTIC LOVE AND PERSONAL BEAUTY
- CONTENTS
- EVOLUTION OF ROMANTIC LOVE
- COSMIC ATTRACTION AND CHEMICAL AFFINITIES
- FLOWER LOVE AND BEAUTY
- IMPERSONAL AFFECTION
- PERSONAL AFFECTIONS
- I.—LOVE FOR ANIMALS
- II.—MATERNAL LOVE
- III.—PATERNAL LOVE
- IV.—FILIAL LOVE
- V.—BROTHERLY AND SISTERLY LOVE
- VI.—FRIENDSHIP
- VII.—ROMANTIC LOVE
- OVERTONES OF ROMANTIC LOVE
- I.—INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE
- II.—MONOPOLY OR EXCLUSIVENESS
- III.—JEALOUSY
- IV.—COYNESS
- V.—GALLANTRY
- VI.—SELF-SACRIFICE
- VII.—SYMPATHY
- VIII.—PRIDE OF CONQUEST AND POSSESSION
- IX.—EMOTIONAL HYPERBOLE
- X.—MIXED MOODS—MAJOR AND MINOR
- XI.—ADMIRATION OF PERSONAL BEAUTY
- HERBERT SPENCER ON LOVE
- LOVE AMONG ANIMALS
- COURTSHIP
- LOVE-CHARMS AND LOVE-CALLS
- LOVE-DANCES AND DISPLAY
- LOVE AMONG SAVAGES
- STRANGERS TO LOVE
- PRIMITIVE COURTSHIP
- INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE
- PERSONAL BEAUTY AND SEXUAL SELECTION
- JEALOUSY AND POLYGAMY
- MONOPOLY AND MONOGAMY
- PRIMITIVE COYNESS
- CAN AMERICAN NEGROES LOVE?
- HISTORY OF LOVE
- LOVE IN EGYPT
- ANCIENT HEBREW LOVE
- ANCIENT ARYAN LOVE
- HINDOO LOVE MAXIMS
- GREEK LOVE
- FAMILY AFFECTIONS
- NO LOVE-STORIES
- WOMAN’S POSITION
- CHAPERONAGE VERSUS COURTSHIP
- PLATO ON COURTSHIP
- PARENTAL VERSUS LOVERS’ CHOICE
- THE HETÆRÆ
- PLATONIC LOVE
- SAPPHO AND FEMALE FRIENDSHIP
- GREEK BEAUTY
- CUPID’S ARROWS
- ORIGIN OF LOVE
- ROMAN LOVE
- WOMAN’S POSITION
- NO WOOING AND CHOICE
- VIRGIL, DRYDEN, AND SCOTT
- OVID’S ART OF MAKING LOVE
- BIRTH OF GALLANTRY
- MEDIÆVAL LOVE
- CELIBACY VERSUS MARRIAGE
- WOMAN’S LOWEST DEGRADATION
- NEGATION OF FEMININE CHOICE
- CHRISTIANITY AND LOVE
- CHIVALRY—MILITANT AND COMIC
- CHIVALRY—POETIC
- FEMALE CULTURE
- PERSONAL BEAUTY
- SPENSER ON LOVE
- DANTE AND SHAKSPERE
- MODERN LOVE
- A BIOLOGIC TEST
- VENUS, PLUTUS, AND MINERVA
- LEADING MOTIVES
- MODERN COYNESS
- MODERN JEALOUSY
- MONOPOLY OR EXCLUSIVENESS
- PRIDE AND VANITY
- SPECIAL SYMPATHY
- GALLANTRY AND SELF-SACRIFICE
- EMOTIONAL HYPERBOLE
- MIXED MOODS AND PARADOXES
- INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE
- PERSONAL BEAUTY
- CONJUGAL AFFECTION AND ROMANTIC LOVE
- ROMANCE IN CONJUGAL LOVE
- MARRIAGES OF REASON OR LOVE-MATCHES?
- MARRIAGE HINTS
- OLD MAIDS
- BACHELORS
- GENIUS AND MARRIAGE
- GENIUS AND LOVE
- GENIUS IN LOVE
- I.—PRECOCITY
- II.—ARDOUR
- III.—FICKLENESS
- IV.—MULTIPLICITY
- V.—FICTITIOUSNESS
- INSANITY AND LOVE
- ANALOGIES
- EROTOMANIA, OR REAL LOVE-SICKNESS
- THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE
- I.—WORDS
- II.-FACIAL EXPRESSION,
- III.—CARESSES
- KISSING—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
- AMONG ANIMALS
- AMONG SAVAGES
- THE ORIGIN OF KISSING
- ANCIENT KISSES
- MEDIÆVAL KISSES
- MODERN KISSES
- LOVE-KISSES
- HOW TO KISS
- HOW TO WIN LOVE
- BRASS BUTTONS
- CONFIDENCE AND BOLDNESS
- PLEASANT ASSOCIATIONS
- PERSEVERANCE
- FEIGNED INDIFFERENCE
- COMPLIMENTS
- LOVE-LETTERS
- LOVE-CHARMS FOR WOMEN
- PROPOSING
- DIAGNOSIS OR SIGNS OF LOVE
- HOW TO CURE LOVE
- ABSENCE
- TRAVEL
- EMPLOYMENT
- MARRIED MISERY
- FEMININE INFERIORITY
- FOCUSSING HER FAULTS
- REASON VERSUS PASSION
- LOVE VERSUS LOVE
- PROGNOSIS OR CHANCES OF RECOVERY
- NATIONALITY AND LOVE
- FRENCH LOVE
- ITALIAN LOVE
- SPANISH LOVE
- GERMAN LOVE
- ENGLISH LOVE
- AMERICAN LOVE
- SCHOPENHAUER’S THEORY OF LOVE
- LOVE IS AN ILLUSION
- INDIVIDUALS SACRIFICED TO THE SPECIES
- SOURCES OF LOVE
- FOUR SOURCES OF BEAUTY
- I.—HEALTH
- II.—CROSSING
- III.—ROMANTIC LOVE
- IV.—MENTAL REFINEMENT
- EVOLUTION OF TASTE
- SAVAGE NOTIONS OF BEAUTY
- NON-ÆSTHETIC ORNAMENTATION
- PERSONAL BEAUTY AS A FINE ART
- NEGATIVE TESTS OF BEAUTY
- POSITIVE TESTS OF BEAUTY
- THE FEET
- SIZE
- FASHIONABLE UGLINESS
- TESTS OF BEAUTY
- A GRACEFUL GAIT
- EVOLUTION OF THE GREAT TOE
- NATIONAL DIFFERENCES
- BEAUTIFYING HYGIENE
- DANCING AND GRACE
- DANCING AND COURTSHIP
- EVOLUTION OF DANCE MUSIC
- THE DANCE OF LOVE
- BALLET-DANCING
- THE LOWER LIMBS
- MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT
- BEAUTIFYING EXERCISE
- FASHIONABLE UGLINESS
- THE CRINOLINE CRAZE
- THE WAIST
- THE BEAUTY CURVE
- THE WASP-WAIST MANIA
- CORPULENCE AND LEANNESS
- THE FASHION FETISH ANALYSED
- INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS FASHION
- MASCULINE FASHIONS
- CHEST AND BOSOM
- FEMININE BEAUTY
- MASCULINE BEAUTY
- MAGIC EFFECT OF DEEP BREATHING
- A MORAL QUESTION
- NECK AND SHOULDER
- ARM AND HAND
- EVOLUTION AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCES
- CALISTHENICS AND MASSAGE
- THE “SECOND FACE”
- FINGER-NAILS
- MANICURE SECRETS
- JAW, CHIN, AND MOUTH
- HANDS VERSUS JAWS
- DIMPLES IN THE CHIN
- REFINED LIPS
- COSMETIC HINTS
- THE CHEEKS
- HIGH CHEEK-BONES
- COLOUR AND BLUSHES
- THE EARS
- A USELESS ORNAMENT
- COSMETICS AND FASHION
- PHYSIOGNOMIC VAGARIES
- NOISE AND CIVILISATION
- A MUSICAL VOICE
- THE NOSE
- SHAPE AND SIZE
- EVOLUTION OF THE NOSE
- GREEK AND HEBREW NOSES
- FASHION AND COSMETIC SURGERY
- NOSE-BREATHING AND HEALTH
- COSMETIC VALUE OF ODOURS
- THE FOREHEAD
- BEAUTY AND BRAIN
- FASHIONABLE DEFORMITY
- WRINKLES
- THE COMPLEXION
- WHITE VERSUS BLACK
- COSMETIC HINTS
- FRECKLES AND SUNSHINE
- THE EYES
- COLOUR
- LUSTRE
- FORM
- EXPRESSION
- COSMETIC HINTS
- THE HAIR
- CAUSE OF MAN’S NUDITY
- BEARDS AND MOUSTACHES
- BALDNESS AND DEPILATORIES
- BRUNETTE AND BLONDE
- BLONDE VERSUS BRUNETTE
- BRUNETTE VERSUS BLONDE
- WHY CUPID FAVOURS BRUNETTES
- NATIONALITY AND BEAUTY
- FRENCH BEAUTY
- ITALIAN BEAUTY
- SPANISH BEAUTY
- GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN BEAUTY
- ENGLISH BEAUTY
- AMERICAN BEAUTY
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