All that truly beautifies a person is at once a deepening and refining of their individuality as well as a more perfect instantiation of higher principles. The well-formed foot, opposed to the cramped and mangled feet of modernity, is at once an expression of an individual’s idiographic beauty and an instance of the principles which are common to all sound human morphology. It allows the individual to be more themselves, to express themselves more fully and masterfully, with less discomfort and difficulty; yet it also makes them closer to the abstract perfection of the “ideal human foot” at the same time, closer to homogeneity with all well-constituted human forms. Strangely, by more closely approximating a general ideal in some aspect of their morphology they also become more unique and more themselves.

 The peculiar beauty of any individual will always be, in its highest forms, bounded by certain principles of organismic harmony and coherence. That is, any given person’s unique and individual highest beauty will always retain these general principles despite being different in some proportions and relations. The highest individual beauty is at the same time the fullest instantiation of the general principles that are common to all things beautiful. Our personal beauty is grounded in and bounded by the elemental features of beauty as such, it is a unique facet or expression of the universal.