PRIMITIVE CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN The adoration of women, individually or collectively, is, however, an entirely modern phenomenon, and is even now very far from being universal.

The adoration of a putrid carcass would have been a form of fetichism lower and more degrading than any that has been discovered.

It is true that Boswell's adoration of his hero is a typical example of the feeling.

It is remarkable that the "Adoration of the Magi" was always a favourite subject with painters of this calibre.

His adoration was no secret.

The Beaumont "Adoration of the Shepherds," with its variant at Vienna, the National Gallery "Epiphany," the Madrid "Madonna with S. Anthony and S. Roch," and the Castelfranco altar-piece are the only instances so far of Giorgione's sacred art, yet Vasari tells us that the master "in his youth painted very many beautiful pictures of the Virgin.

His works were very numerous, but chiefly from the circle of Dionysus, Aphrodite, and Eros, in which adoration for corporeal attractions is the most marked peculiarity, and for which the artist was fitted by his dissolute life.

Within the last few centuries, adoration of femininity has become a sort of instinct in men, reaching its climax in romantic love.

Adoration is their very bliss and life.

Thus, you see, France is to the old what a masquerade is to the ugly the one confounds the disparity of age as the other does that of person; but indiscriminate adoration is no compliment to youth, nor is a mask any privilege to beauty.