Ugliness is not mere absence of beauty, but absence of it where it ought to be present.

And homely with a dower which beauty bought, And ugliness with gold becomes his lot.

" The sybils, of whom so many strange prophetic things are recorded, are all, if the Italian poets are to be credited, represented as very old women; and as if ugliness were the ne plus ultra of beauty in old age, they have given them all the hideousness of the devil himself.

We are convinced that true ugliness, no less than is affirmed of true beauty, is the result of harmony.