So that, attending to their quantity, beautiful objects are comparatively small.
SECTION XIV.
SMOOTHNESS.
The next property constantly observable in such objects is _smoothness_;[24] a quality so essential to beauty, that I do not now recollect anything beautiful that is not smooth.

In trees and flowers, smooth leaves are beautiful; smooth slopes of earth in gardens; smooth streams in the landscape; smooth coats of birds and beasts in animal beauties; in fine women, smooth skins; and in several sorts of ornamental furniture, smooth and polished surfaces.

A very considerable part of the effect of beauty is owing to this quality; indeed the most considerable.

For, take any beautiful object, and give it a broken, and rugged surface; and, however well formed it may be in other respects, it pleases no longer.

Whereas, let it want ever so many of the other constituents, if it wants not this, it becomes more pleasing than almost all the others without it.