avoid it, though one strove to separate the passion from its correspondent gestures. Our minds and bodies are so closely and intimately connected, that one is incapable of pain or pleasure without the other. Campanella, of whom we have been speaking, could so abstract his attention from any sufferings of his body, that he was able to endure the rack itself without much pain; and, in lesser pains, every body must have observed that, when we can employ our attention on any thing else, the pain has been for a time suspended: on the other hand, if, by any means, the body is indisposed to perform such gestures, or to be stimulated into such emotions as any passion usually produces in it, that passion itself never can arise, though its cause should be never so strongly in action, though it should be merely mental, and immediately affecting none of the senses. As an opiate or spirituous liquors shall suspend the operation of grief, or fear, or anger, in spite of all our efforts to the contrary; and this by inducing in the body a disposition contrary to that which it receives from these passions."

Enquiry on the Sublime and Beautiful, page 249-252.

2.

"Qui pourra jamais dire en quoi l'organisation d'un imbecile différe de celle d'un autre homme *?"-(The naturalist, whether Buffon or any other, 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 in vain be recommended to the dying." (There are countenances which no human wisdom or power can rectify; but that which is impossible to man is not so to God.)

4.

If the worm gnaws within, the appearance without is deformity and shame."(Let the hypocrite, devoured by conscience, assume whatever artful appearance he may, 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

* Who can ever explain wherein consists the difference of organization between an idiot and another man?

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 feed in vain.—It starves in the midst of plenty, or grows fat and feeble."-(This, alas! 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 toward 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."(A proper light and point of view being premised.)" 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 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.

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Physiognomy is to man as necessary"—

(and as natural)" as language."

G.

PASSAGES, OR MISCELLANEOUS PHYSIOGNOMONICAL THOUGHTS FROM HOLY WRIT, WITH A SHORT INTRODUCTION.

To those who contemn the Bible, whether they read, or scornfully neglect, this fragment, I shall say, Truth is truth, even though found in the Scriptures.

To those who reverence the Bible, and in whom, by this fragment, I endeavour to strengthen and increase this reverence, I shall say, Truth is divinely true and mighty, when it is the word of God.

I need not remark, to either of these, that general truths are general truths, be they spoken by whom they may, or be they not spoken; and that they do not cease to be such because they have been cited by any particular person, on or at any particular time, place, or occasion. Each word, whether of scripture or of man, has its permanent value, not to be determined by the code of Cocceius*, but the code of reason. Be it understood we speak of general propositions,

*Which has been a thousand times misapplied, and ten thousand times unwarrantably mutilated, falsified, cited, and decried, without the necessary adduced proofs.