preserving proportion, and the strokes are unconnected. What is the stupid countenance ? It is one, the parts of which are defectively connected, and the muscles improperly formed and arranged. Thought and sensation, therefore, of which these are the inseparable instruments, must be alike feeble and dormant.

10.

"There is another substance in the body, exclusive of the muscles; that is to say, the scull, or bones in general, to which the physiognomist attends. The position of the muscles depends on these. How might the muscle of the forehead have the position proper for thought, if the forehead bones, over which it is extended, had not the necessary arch and superfices? The figure of the scull, therefore, defines the figure and position of the muscles, which define thought and sensation."

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"The hair affords us the same observation, as from the parts and position of the hair conclusions may be drawn. Why has the negro woolly hair? The thickness of the skin prevents the escape of certain of the particles of perspiration, and these render the skin opaque and black. Hence the hair shoots with difficulty, and scarcely has it penetrated before it curls, and its growth ceases. The hair spreads according to the form of the scull and the position of the

muscles, and gives occasion to the physiognomist to draw conclusions from the hair to the posi tion of the muscles, and to deduce other consequences,"

It is clearly my opinion, that our author is in the right road. He is the first who, to my knowledge, has perceived and felt the totality, the combination, the uniformity, of the various parts of the human body. What he has affirmed especially concerning the hair, that we may from that make deductions concerning the nature of the body, and still farther of the mind, the least accurate observer may convince himself is truth, by daily experience. White, tender, clear, weak hair, always denotes weak, delicate, irritable, or rather a timid and easily oppressed organization. The black, and curly will never be found on the delicate, tender, medullary head.

As is the hair, so the muscles, as the muscles, so the nerves, as the nerves, so the bones; their powers are mutual, and the powers of the mind to act, suffer, receive, and give, proportionate. Least irritability always accompanies short, hard, curly, black hair, and the most the flaxen and the tender; that is to say, irritability without elasticity. The one is oppressive without elasticity, and the other oppressed without resistance.

“ Much hair, much fat, therefore no part of the human body is more conspicuously covered with hair than the head and armpits. From the

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elasticity of the hair, deductions may with certainty be made to the elasticity of the character. The hair naturally betokens moisture, and may properly determine the quantity of moisture. The inhabitants of cold countries have hair more white, and, on the contrary, those of hot countries, black. Lionel Wafer observes, that the inhabitants of the isthmus of Darien have milkwhite hair. Few, if any, have green hair, except those who work in copper mines. We seldom find white hair betokening dishonesty, but often dark brown or black, with lightcoloured eyebrows. Women have longer hair than men. Men with long hair are always ra ther effeminate than manly. Dark hair is harsher than light, as is the hair of a man than that of a boy.

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"As all depends on the quality of the muscles, it is evident, that in these muscles, which are employed for certain modes of thought and sensation, ought to be sought the expression of similar thoughts and sensations."

The search should not be neglected, though perhaps it will be difficult to find them; and they certainly will there be defined with greater difficulty than in the forehead.

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"The most important instrument to the abstract thinker is the muscle of the forehead; for

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which reason we always seek for abstract thought in the forehead."

Rather near and between the eyebrows. It is of consequence to remark the particular moment when the thinker is listening, or when he is preparing some acute answer. Seize the moment, and another of the important tokens of physiognomy is obtained.

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Among people who do not abstract, and whose powers of mind are all in action, men of wit, exquisite taste, and genius, all the muscles must be advantageously formed and arranged. Expression, therefore, in such, must be sought in the whole countenance."

Yet may it be found in the forehead alone, which is less sharp, straight-lined, perpendicular, and forked. The skin is less rigid, more easily moved, more flexible.

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"How laborious has been the trouble to convince people, that physiognomy is only generally useful!"

It is at this very moment disputed by men of the strongest minds. How long shall it continue so to be? Yet I should suppose, that he who curses the sun, while exposed to its scorching rays, would, when in the shade, acknowledge its universal utility.

"How afflicting is it to hear, from persons of the greatest learning, and who might be ex

pected to enlarge the boundaries of human un-derstanding, the most superficial judgments! How much is that great æra to be wished, when the knowledge of man shall become a part of natural history; when psychology, physiology, and physiognomy, shall go hand in hand, and lead us towards the confines of more general, more sublime illumination !”

CHAP. XXXVII.

Extracts from Maximus Tyrius.

As the soul of man is the nearest approach to the Deity, it was not proper that God should clothe that which most resembled himself in dishonourable garments; but with a body befitting a mortal mind, and endowed with a proper capability of motion. This is the only body on earth that stands erect. It is magnificent, superb, and formed according to the best proportion of its most delicate parts. Its stature is not terrific, nor is its strength formidable. The coldness of its juices occasions it not to creep, nor their heat to fly.` Man eats not raw flesh, from the savageness of his nature, nor does he graze like the ox; but he is framed and adapted for the executions of his functions. To the wicked he is formidable, mild and friendly to the good. By nature he walks the earth, swims by art, and flies by imagination. He tills the earth, and enjoys its fruits. His