orehead, no one can mistake the princely, the uperior, the masculine firmness of this, neverheless feminine, but fortunate and kind coun

enance.

Number 3.

VOLTAIRE.

Precision is wanting to the outline of the eye, power to the eyebrows, the sting, the scourge of satire to the forehead. The under part of the rofile, on the contrary, speaks a flow of wit, cute, exuberant, exalted, ironical, never deficient in reply.

Number 4. MALHERBE.

Here is a high, comprehensive, powerful, firm, retentive, French forehead, that appears to want the open, free, noble essence of the former; has something rude and productive; is more choleric; and its firmness appears to border on harshness.

Number 5. VOISIN.

The delicate construction of the forehead, the aspect of the man of the world, the beauty of the nose, in particular, the somewhat rash, satirical mouth, the pleasure-loving chin, all shew the Frenchman of a superior class.-The excellent companion, the fanciful wit, the supple courtier, are every where apparent.

Number 6. LAVATER.

A bad likeness of the author of these frag

ference of organization between an ideot and another man?" ́

The naturalist, whether Buffon or any other, who is become famous, and who can ask this question, will never be satisfied with any given answer, even though it were the most formal demonstration.

3.

"Diet and exercise would be of no use when recommended to the dying."

No human wisdom or power can rectify; but that which is impossible to man, is not so to God.

4.

"The appearance without must be deformity and shame, when the worm gnaws within."

Let the hypocrite, devoured by conscience, assume whatever artful appearance he will, of severity, tranquillity, or vague solemnity, his distortion will ever be apparent to the physiognomist.

5.

"Take a tree from its native soil, its free air, and mountainous situation, and plant it in the confined circulation of a hot-house: there it may vegetate, but in a weak and sickly condition. Feed this foreign animal in a den; you will find it in vain. It starves in the midst of plenty, or grows fat and feeble."

This, I am sorry to say, is the mournful history of many a man.

6.

"A portrait is the ideal of an individual, not of men in general."

A perfect portrait is neither more nor less than the circular form of a man reduced to a flat surface, and which shall have the exact appearance of the person for whom it was painted, seen in a camera obscura.

7.

I once asked a friend, "How does it happen that artful and subtle people always have one or both eyes rather closed?"-"Because they are feeble," answered he. "Who ever saw strength and subtlety united? The mistrust of others is meanness towards ourselves."

8.

This same friend, who to me is a man of ten thousand for whatever relates to mind, wrote two valuable letters on physiognomy to me, from which I am allowed to make the following. extracts:

"It appears to me to be an eternal law, that the first is the only true impression. Of this I offer no proof, except by asserting such is my belief, and by appealing to the sensations of others. The stranger affects me by his appearance, and is, to my sensitive being, what the

P

sun would be to a man born blind restored to

sight.

9.

"Rousseau was right when he said of D. that man does not please me, though he has never done me any injury; but I must break with him before it comes to that.

10.

"Physiognomy is as necessary to man as language." I may add, as natural.

CHAP. LIII.

Miscellaneous Thoughts.

1.

EVERY thing is good. Every thing may, and must be misused. Physiognomonical sensation is in itself as truly good, as godlike, as expressive of the exalted worth of human nature as moral sensation; perhaps they are both the same. The suppressing, the destroying a sensation so deserving of honour, where it begins to act, is sinning against ourselves, and in reality equal to resisting the good spirit. Indeed, good impulses and actions must have their limits, in order that they may not impede other good impulses and actions.

2.

Each man is a man of genius in his large or small sphere. He has a certain circle in which he can act with inconceivable force. The less his kingdom, the more concentrated is his power, consequently the more irresistible is his form of government. Thus the bee is the greatest of mathematicians, as far as its wants extend. Having discovered the genius of a man, how inconsiderable soever the circle of his activity may be, having caught him in the moment when his genius is in its highest exertion, the characteristic token of that genius will also be easily discovered.

3.5

The approach of the Godhead cannot be nearer, in the visible world, and in what we denominate

than
in the countenance of a great and

noble man.

Christ could not but truly say,

He who seeth Me' seeth Him that sent me." God cannot, without a miracle, be seen any where so fully as in the countenance of a good man. Thus the essence of any man is more present, more certain to me, by having obtained his shade:

4.

. Great countenances awaken and stimulate each other, excite all that can be excited. Any nation, having once produced a Spenser, a Shakspeare, and a Milton, may be certain that