Excerpt from Philosophical Meditations: Talks to College Girls

The subject of Being versus Seeming therefore, in its relation to man naturally divides itself into three parts.

First, in relation to the body, our ideal demands that we find satisfaction in its being rather than its seeming.

What is the supreme end in relation to the body? That it shall be sound, that it shall be useful, or perhaps I had better say usable, that it shall be beautiful.

Our ideal then is to have a body which is sound and not merely seems sound, is usable and not merely seems usable, is beautiful and not merely seems beautiful.

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