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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![coinparcd, will not appear to be vcry rcmarkablv dillcrcnt. ISor is it less incoiitrovcTtibIc, tbat it is e(|iially iinj)ossil)le to find two niinds, as two ^ Cüiintcnances.wbicli perlcctly rfscinl)leeacli otbcr. Cüiisideiaiions like tbesc will bo sulbcicnt to niakc it rccc'ived as a iriitli^ not rcMjuiring l'artber ilcinonstration, tbat thcre must be a ccrtain na- tive analogy bctwcen tlie cxiernal varietics of’tlie eounlenanee and i'onn, and tlie internal varietics of tbe mind. Anger renders the innseles ])rotu- beram; aml sball not tbereCore an angry niinrl and protnberant niuscles be considered as eaiise and clfeet? Alter repeatcd obscrvation, tbat an active and vivid eye, and an active and acnie wit, arc frc- f)uently tbiind in tbc same person, sball it be snp- |»osed tbat tbere is no relation belween tbe active eye and tbc jietive inind? Is tbis ibc eflect ol’ac- cident? Ougbt it not ratber to be considered as sympatby, an intercbangeable and instantaneous edect, wben we perccive tbat, at tbe very monient tbe understanding is inost acute and [)enetrating, and the wit tbe niost lively, tbc inotion and lireoF ihe eye undergOj at tbat inoinent, tbe inost visible aIteration ? Hut all tbis is denied by tbose wbo oppose tbe trntb oF the Science oF pbysiognoiny. 'rrutb, ac- c'ording to tbein, is ever at variance wiib bcrscll'; Eternal order isdegradcd to a juggler, wliose pur- ])ose it is to deccive. Calm veason revolts wben it is asserted, tbat tbe slrong inan inay appear perlectly like tbe weak, the man in Full bealth like anotber in the last Stage oF a consuinption, or tbat tbe rasb and .irascible rcsemblc the cold and pblegmatic. It revolts to hear it aflirmed, tbat joy and grieF, pleasure](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
