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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![10‘2 iiation, diel wc not see the two people septirafed Iroin euch otlier by a vast ocean. They also aie under the saine latitude, whieli is an additional ])roof ot the iiifluence ol cliinatc on tlie coloui;, and even on tlie ionn ol' man. C II A P. XIX. / Sotne qf the inost remarkahlc Passages from (in rjr- cellent Essaj/ on Nalionai Fli^siognom^, by Pro- jessor Kant of Königsberg. The Slipposition of Manpcrtuis_, that a race of men might be established in any province, in whoin understtmding, probity, andstrength, should be hereditary, could only be realised by the possi- bility of separating tlie degenerate from the con- formable birtlis; a |noject which, in my opinion, might be practicable, biit wliieli, in the present üioer of things, is prevented by the vviser disposi- tions of naturej according to which the wickod and the good are inteimingled, that by the irrcgii- larities and vices of the former^ the latent povvers of the latter may be juit in motion, and impelied to approacli perfection. Il nature, wilhout trans- plantation or l'oreign mixlure^ be left undistuibed, she will, after immy generations, produce a lasting race that shall ever remain distinct. If we divido the human race into four principal classes, it is probable that the intermediate ones, however perpetuating and conspicuoiis, may be immediately reduced to one of these. l.The race of Whites. ii. The rsegrocs, 3. The Huns^ (Mongulsj](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0118.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
