If such deformity happen by any chance after the marriage is consummate and finished, well, there is no remedy but patience.
But it were well done that a law were made whereby all such deceits were eschewed and avoided beforehand." The clear conception of what may be called the spiritual value of nakedness--by no means from More's point of view, but as a part of natural hygiene in the widest sense, and as a high and special aspect of the purifying and ennobling function of beauty--is of much later date.

It is not clearly expressed until the time of the Romantic movement at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
We have it admirably set forth in Senancour's _De l'Amour_ (first edition, 1806; fourth and enlarged edition, 1834), which still remains one of the best books on the morality of love.

After remarking that nakedness by no means abolishes modesty, he proceeds to advocate occasional partial or complete nudity.

"Let us suppose," he remarks, somewhat in the spirit of Plato, "a country in which at certain general festivals the women should be absolutely free to be nearly or even quite naked.

Swimming, waltzing, walking, those who thought good to do so might remain unclothed in the presence of men.