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CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.—INTRODUCTION.-Physiognomy a Science.
-The Truth of Physiognomy.-The Advantages of
Physiognomy.-Its Disadvantages.-The Ease and
Difficulty of studying Physiognomy.-A word con-
cerning the Author

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CHAP. II. On the Nature of Man, which is the Foun-
dation of the Science of Physiognomy.-Difference
between Physiognomy and Pathognomy
CHAP. III.—Signs of bodily Strength and Weakness.
Of Health and Sickness...

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CHAP. IV.—The Congeniality of the Human Form 39
CHAP. V.-Description of Plates I. and II. . . . . . .47
CHAP. VI.-The universal Excellence of the Form of
Man

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CHAP. VII.-Of the Forehead

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CHAP. VIII.—Of the Eyes and Eyebrows........61

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CHAP. XIII.-Suggestions to the Physiognomist con-
cerning the Scull

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CHAP. XIV. Of the Difference of Sculls as they re-
late to Sex, and particularly to Nations. Of the
Sculls of Children

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CHAP. XV.-Description of Plate III.

CHAP. XVI.-The Physiognomist.

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CHAP. XVII.-Lavater's own Remarks on National

Physiognomy

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CHAP. XVIII.-Extracts from Buffon on National
Physiognomy

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CHAP. XIX.-Some of the most remarkable Passages
from an excellent Essay on National Physiognomy,
by Professor Kant of Konigsberg...

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CHAP. XX.-Extracts from other Writers on National
Physiognomy.-From Winkelmann's History of Art.
-From the Recherches Philosophiques sur les Ame-
ricains, by M. de Pauw.-Observations by Lintz.-
From a Letter written by M. Fuessli.-From a Letter
written by Professor Camper..

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CHAP. XXI.-Extracts from the Manuscript of a Man
of Literature at Darmstadt, on National Physiog-
nomy
CHAP. XXII.-Description of Plate IV.........137
CHAP. XXIII.-Resemblance between Parents and
Children

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CHAP. XXIV.-Remarks on the Opinions of Buffon,
Haller, and Bonnet, concerning the Resemblance
between Parents and Children....

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CHÁP. XXV.-Observations on the New-born, the
Dying, and the Dead

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CHAP. XXVI. Of the influence of Countenance on
Countenance

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CHAP. XXVII.-On the Influence of the Imagination
on the Countenance

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CHAP. XXVIII.-The Effects of the Imagination on
the Human Form....
CHAP. XXIX.-Essay by a late learned Man of
Oldenburg, M. Sturtz, on Physiognomy, interspersed
with short Remarks by the Author......
CHAP. XXX.-Quotations from Huart, with Remarks
thereon
CHAP. XXXI.-Remarks on an Essay on Physiog-
nomy, by Professor Lichtenberg..................
CHAP. XXXII.-Description of Plate V. .....211
CHAP. XXXIII.—General Remarks on Women..212
CHAP. XXXIV.—General Remarks on Male and Fe-
male. A word on the physiognomonical Relation of
the Sexes
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CHAP. XXXV.-On the Physiognomy of Youth 222
CHAP. XXXVI.-Physiognomonical Extracts from
an Essay inserted in the Deutschen Museum, a Ger-
man Journal or Review

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CHAP. XXXVII.-Extracts from Maximus Tyrius 237

CHAP. XXXVIII.-Extracts from a Manuscript by

Th-

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CHAP. XXXIX.-Extracts from NICOLAI and WIN-

KELMANN

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CHAP. XL.-Extracts from Aristotle and other Au-

thors concerning Beasts

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CHAP. XLI.-Of Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and In-

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CHAP. XLII.-Of Shades

CHAP. XLIII.-Description of Plate VI.

CHAP. XLIV.-A Word to Travellers

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CHAP. XLV.-A Word to Princes and Judges..285

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CHAP. XLVI.—A Word to the Clergy
CHAP. XLVII.-Physiognomonical Elucidations of

Countenances

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CHAP. XLVIII.-Physiognomonical Anecdotes..293
CHAP. XLIX.-Miscellaneous Extracts from Kæmpf's
Essay on the Temperaments, with Remarks ....295
CHAP. L.-Upon Portrait Painting

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CHAP. LI.-Description of Plate VII.

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CHAP. LII.-Miscellaneous Quotations

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CHAP. LIII.-Miscellaneous Thoughts

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CHAP. LIV. Of the Union between the Knowledge
of the Heart and Philanthropy.-Miscellaneous Phy-
siognomonical Thoughts from Holy Writ ......319
CHAP. LV. Of the apparently false decisions of Phy-
siognomy. Of the general Objections made to Phy-
siognomy.-Particular Objections answered....325

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