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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![thosc, in vliom, to uso the cxpression of a ino- tleni poet, tlic imagc ol the Creator is half de- l'aced. From the Recherches Phl/usophlf/ucs siir les Amc- rieuins, fnf M. de Paine. The Amerieans are niost remarkable, hecanse tliat many of’ tliem have no eyebrovvs, and none liave beards ; yet Ave must not ini'er that tluy are enfeebled in llie organs of generation, sinee the l artars and Chinese have almost the same charac- leristics. They are iar, however, from being very friiitful, or much addicted to love. Tnie it is, the Chinese and l’artars are not absohitely beardless. hen they are about ihirty, a small peneiled kind ol whisker grows on the upper lip, and some seat- tcred hairs at the end of tlie ehin. Exclusive of the Esciuimaux, vvho dilfer in gait, form, featurcs, and mamiers, from other savages uf iNorlh Ameriea, weinay likewise eall the Akan- sans a variciy, \vhom the Ereneh have general ly nanied the lumdsome men. They are tall and straight, have good featurcs, wiihoutthe least ap- ])earanee of beard, have regulär eyelids, blue eyes, and hne l’air hair ; while the neighbouring people are low of staturc, have abjeet ecimte- nanccs, black eyes, tlu.“ hair of the head black as ebony, and of the hody thiek and rough. 'riiough the l’eruvians tire not very tall, and ge- nerally thiek set, yet they are tolertibly well made. There are many, it is true, who, by being diminu- tive, are monstrous. Some are deaf, dumb, blind, and idiots; atid others want a limb when bom. In all probability, the exeessive labour to whieh they have becii subjccted by ihe buibarily of the Spa- niard«.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0124.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
