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Suggestions.

SUGGESTIONS.

1

THAT whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person  
 —That is finally right.

2

That the human shape or face is so great, it must never  
 be made ridiculous;
That for ornaments nothing outr can be allowed, That anything is most beautiful without ornament; That exaggerations will be sternly revenged in your  
 own physiology, and in other persons' physiol- 
 ogy also;
That clean-shaped children can be jetted and conceiv'd  
 only where natural forms prevail in public, and  
 the human face and form are never caricatured;
And that genius need never more be turn'd to ro- 
 mances.
(For facts properly told, how mean appear all ro- 
 mances.)

3

I have said many times that materials and the Soul are  
 great, and that all depends on physique;
Now I reverse what I said, and suggest that all depends  
 on the sthetic, or intellectual,
And that criticism is great—and that refinement is  
 greatest of all;
And that the mind governs—and that all depends on  
 the mind.

4

With one man or woman—(no matter which one—I  
 even pick out the lowest,)
With him or her I now suggest the whole law; And that every right, in politics or what-not, shall be  
 eligible to that one man or woman, on the same  
 terms as any.
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