text:  As far as beauty of form is concerned whatever intrenches on the proportion of natural shape is intrinsically contradictory to it: let no woman imagine that she has a fine figure if she can lace herself into a diameter of nine or ten inches; for by so doing she disturbs the harmony of all the curves--all the lines of beauty as Hogarth calls them--with which she has been so richly endowed; she fails of her effect and instead of beauty produces only absurdity