formed to piety and religion. To them Christ first appeared; but he was obliged to prevent them from too ardently and too haftily embracing him-Touch me not. They are prompt to receive and seize novelty, and become its enthufiafts.

In the prefence and proximity of him they love, the whole world is forgotten. They fink into the most incurable melancholy, as they rise to the most enraptured heights.

There is more imagination in male fenfation, in the female more heart. When communicative, they are more communicative than man; when fecret, more secret. In general they are more patient, long-fuffering, credulous, benevolent, and modeft.

Woman is not a foundation on which to build. She is the gold, filver, precious ftones, wood, hay, ftubble; (1 Cor. iii. 12.) the materials for building on the male foundation. She is the leaven, or, more expreffively the oil to the vinegar of man; the fecond part to the book of man. Man fingly, is but half a man, at least but half human; a king without a kingdom. Woman, who feels properly what the is, whether ftill or in motion, reits upon the man; nor is man what he may and ought to be but in conjunction with woman. Therefore" it is not good that man fhould be alone, but that he fhould leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and that they two fhall be one flesh."

A Word on the phyfiognomonical Relation of the Sexes.

Man is the most firm, woman the most flexible. Man is the ftraighteft, woman the most bending. Man ftands ftedfaft, woman gently retreats. Man furveys and obferves, woman glances and feels.

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Man is ferious, woman is gay.

Man is the tallest and broadeft, woman the smalleft and weakest.

Man is rough and hard, woman is smooth and foft.

Man is brown, woman is fair.

Man is wrinkly, woman is not.

The hair of man is ftrong and fhort, of woman more long and pliant.

The eyebrows of man are compreffed, of woman lefs frowning.

Man has moft convex lines, woman moft con

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Man has most straight lines, woman most curved. The countenance of man, taken in profile, is not fo often perpendicular as that of the woman. Man is most angular, woman moft round.

CHAP. XXXV.

On the Phyfiognomy of Youth.

Extracts from Zimmermann's Life of Haller.

THE firft years of the youth include the hif tory of the man. They develope the quali ties of the foul, the materials of future conduct, and the true features of temperament. In riper years diffimulation prevails, or, at leaft, that modification of our thoughts, which is the confequence of experience and knowledge.

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"The characteristics of the paffions, which are undeniably discovered to us by the peculiar art denominated phyfiognomy, are effaced in the countenance by age; while, on the contrary, their true figns are vifible in youth. The original materials of man are unchangeable; he is drawn in colours that have no deceit. The boy is the work of nature, the man of art.

How much of the true, how much of the falfe, worthy Zimmermann, at least of the indefinite, is there in this paffage! According to my conception, I fee the clay, the mafs, in the youthful countenance; but not the form of the future man. There are paffions and powers of youth, and paffions and powers of age. Thefe often are contradictory in the fame man, yet are they contained one within the other. Time produces the expreffion of latent traits. A man is but a boy feen through a magnifying glafs, I always, therefore, perceive more in the countenance of a man than of a boy. Diffimulation may indeed conceal the moral materials, but not alter their form. The growth of powers and paffions imparts, to the firft undefined sketch of what is called a boy's countenance, the firm traits, fhading, and colouring, of manhood.

Thefe are youthful countenances, which declare whether they ever fhall, or fhall not, ripen into man. This they declare, but they only declare it to the great phyfiognomift. I will acknowledge, when, which feldom happens, the form of the head is beautiful, confpicuous, proportionate, greatly featured, well defined, and not too feebly coloured, it will be difficult that the refult fhould be common or vulgar. I likewife know, that where the form is diftorted, efpecially when it is transverse, extended, undefined, or too harfhly defined, much can rarely

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be expected. But how much do the forms of youthful countenances change, even in the system of the bones!

Much has been faid of the opennefs, undegeneracy, fimplicity, and ingenuoufness of a childish and youthful countenance. It may be fo; but, for my own part, I must own, I am not fo fortunate as to be able to read a youthful countenance with the fame degree of quickness and precision, however fmall that degree, as one that is manly. The more I converse with and confider children, the more difficult do I find it to pronounce, with certainty, concerning their character. Not that I do not meet countenances, among children and boys, most strikingly and pofitively fignificant; yet feldom is the great outline of the youth fo definite as for us to be able to read in it the man. The most remarkably advantageous young countenances may eafily, through accident, terror, hurt, or severity in parents or tutors, be internally injured, without any appa rent injury to the whole. The beautiful, the eloquent form, the firm forehead, the deep, fharp eye, the cheerful, open, free, quick-moving mouth remain; there will only be a drop of troubled water in what else appears fo clear; only an uncommon, fcarcely remarkable, perhaps convulfive motion of the mouth. Thus is hope overthrown, and beauty rendered indiftinct.

As fimplicity is the foil for variety, fo is innocence for the products of viee. Simplicity, not of a youth, but of a child, in thee the Omnifcient only views the progrefs of fleeping paffion; the gentle wrinkles of youth, the deep of manhood, and the manifold and relaxed of age. Oh! how different was my infantine countenance to the prefent, in form and speech! But as tranfgreffion follows innocence, so doth virtue tranfgreffion.

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CHA P. XXXVI.

Phyfiognomical Extracts from an Essay inferted in the Deutfchen Museum, a German Journal or Review.

FROM this effay I fhall extract only felect thoughts, and chiefly none but those which I fuppofe to be importantly true, importantly false, or ill defined.

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«Men with arched and pointed noses are said to be witty, and that the blunt nofed are not fo."

A more accurate definition is neceffary, which, without drawing, is almost impoffible. Is it meant by arched noses arched in length or in breadth? How arched? This is almost as indeterminate as when we speak of arched foreheads. All foreheads are arched. Innumerable noses are arched, the most