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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![])le latdy dcad, tluit 1 niiglit be ablc to definc tlie iiiies üf tlie cüuiitciumce, and tlic angle ol'thcse line.s witli thc horizon. 1 was tlius led to ilie dis- covery ol’ iho inaximuni and uiiniinnm of tliis angle. 1 began wiib the inoukey, procceded to tlie Negro and tlie European, tili 1 aseended to the countenanees ot' antn.juily, and exainined a IVIediisa^ an Apollo, or a Venus de Mcdieis. Tliis concferus only the proHle. ’J'here is another difier- ence> in the breadth of ihe eheeks, whieh I have ibund to be largest aiuong the Caliiiues, and nuieh smallcr among the Asiatin Isegroes. The Chinese, and inhabitants ot' the Molueea and other Asiatin Islands, appear to me to liave broad eheeks, with projccting jaw-bones; the under jaw-bone, in par- ticular, very high, and ahnost Ibnning a right an- gle, whieh aiuong Ihiropeans, is very obtuse, and still morc so ainong the Alriean Negroes, r have not hilherlo been able to procure a real skull ot’ an American, and therelore ean sav no- tljing on that sulijeet. 1 am almost ashained to confess that I have not yet beeil able aceurately to draw the eountenanee ot'aJew, altiiough they are so very reniaikable in their t’eatures; nor have l yet obtained ineeision in delineating the Italian faee. It is generally •true, that the upper and under jaw ot' the Euro- pean is less bruad than the breadth ot the skull, and that among the Asiaties they are mueh bi oad- er; but 1 have not been able tu determine the specitic dilt'erenees between European nations. r have very t'requcntly, by physiognomonieal sensations, been able to distinguish tjhe soldiers of ditferent nations,: the Seotehman, the Irishnian,^ and the native ot' England; yet have 1 never been able to deliueate the distinguishing traits. The people](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0128.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
