Essays on physiognomy. ... for the promotion and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; tr. by Thomas Holcroft.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Date:
- 1806
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on physiognomy. ... for the promotion and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; tr. by Thomas Holcroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![painting, and tlie other imitative arts. I ^ay, ran it nced dernonstration, tluit all tliosc, an 1 mueli iiiore, are to liiin indisj/ensable ? 'l'o siim up the whole: to a well-ronued, well organized hody,the peri'ect pliysiognomisit must uiiite an acute spintof Observation, a lively faney, au exceileut jiidginerit, and, witb numerous jnopeusities to the arts and Sc iences, a strong, benevolent, eiitliu.uastie, imio- centdieart; a licart conlidcnt in itsel:, and iVec irom tlic passions inimical to man. iSo one, eer- tainly, caii read the traits ot‘ inagttanimiry, and tlie liigb (]ualiiies ol' the mind, who is not liimsclf capable of magnaniniity, honomuble thoughts, and sublitne action. i have pronounced judgment against myselF in writing these characteristic's off the physiognö- iiiist. rsot false modesty, but conscious feeling, impels me to say, that I am us distant fron) the tnie -physiognomist as heaven is tfom earth. 1 am but the l’ragment of a physiognomist, as this work is but the fragnient of a System of [)hy.siognomy. ’ C II A P. XVII. Lavatcr's otrvt Remarlcs on-Nat?oiial P/ii/siognemy. It is undeniable, that there is national physio- gnomy, as well as national charactcr. \^ lioever douhts of this can never have observed men ol dit- ferent nations, nor have eompared the inhabitants of the extreme confines ol any two. Compare a IVc^gro and an Englishman, a native ol' Laplund und an Italian, aFrcnchman and an inhabittmt ol lorra](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0108.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
