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 rather 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.

13.

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

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.

15.

"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

complexion is beautiful, his limbs firm, his countenance is comely, and beard ornamental. By imitating his body, the Greeks have thought proper to honour their deities."

Why am I not able to speak with sufficient force? Oh! that I could find faith enough with my readers, to convince them how frequently my soul seems exalted above itself, while I contemplate the unspeakably miraculous nature of the human body! Oh! that all the languages of the earth would lend me words, that I might turn the thoughts of men, not only to the contemplation of others, but, by the aid of these, to the contemplation of themselves! No antiphysiognomist can more despise my work than I myself shall, if I am unable to accomplish this purpose. How might I conscientiously write such a work were not such my views? If this be not impulse, no writer has impulse. I cannot behold the smallest trait, nor the inflexion of any outline, without reading wisdom and benevolence, or without waking as if from a sweet dream into rapturous and actual existence, and congratulating myself that I also am a man.

In each the smallest outline of the human body, and how much more in all together, in each member separately, and how much more in the whole body, however old and ruinous the building may appear, how much is there contained of the study of God, the genius of God, the poetry of God? My trembling and agitated breast frequently pants after leisure to look into the revelations of God.

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"Imagine to thyself the most translucent water flowing over a surface, on which grow beauteous flowers, whose bloom, though beneath, is seen through the pellucid waves; even so it is with the fair flower of the soul, planted in a beauteous body, through which its beauteous bloom is seen. The good formation of a youthful body is no other than the bloom of ripening virtue, and, as I may say, the presage of far higher perfection; for, as before the rising of the sun, the mountain tops are gilded by his rays, enlivening the pleasing prospects, and promising the full approach of day, so also the future maturity of an illustrious soul shines through the body, and is to the philosopher, the pleasing sign of approaching happiness."

CHAP. XXXVIII.

Extracts from a Manuscript by Th

"THE relation between the male and female countenance is similar to that between youth and manhood. Our experience, that the deep, or scarcely visible outline is in proportion to the depth or shallowness of thought, is one of the many proofs that nature has impressed such forms upon her creatures as shall testify their qualities. That these forms or signs are legible to the highly perceptive soul is visible in