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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![\ tcntion, and found a particular trait which was yery marking and decisive. A siinilar trait to tliis I many years afterward discovcred in anothcr pcr- son, who, thoiigh vviclely ditfercnt, was also a mau of great talents; and who, this trait cxccpted, liad an unineaning cuuntenance, whidi seeined to prove the scienec of [)hysiognoin3' erroneous. Never since this time liave l discovcred ihat parti- cular trait in anv inan who did not posscss sonio peculiar inerit, Fiowever simple his appearmice inight he. l'his proves how true and falsc, al oncc, the ob- jection niay be, which States, “ Such a person a[>- ])cars to he a weak man, ycl has great powers of mind.” I have beeil writlcn Io concerning D’Alembert, whose counteiiance, conlrary to all physiognomo- nical Science, was one of llie inost common. To this I can make no answer, unless I had secn D’Alembcrt, This much is certain, that his pro- file, by Cochin, which yet must be very inferior to the original, not to mention other Icss obvious traits. Las a forehead, and in part a nose, which were never secn in the countenancc of any person of moderate, not to say mean, abilities, Ohjcclion 7. ** We find very silly people with very expressive countenances.” AnsKcr. Who does not daily make this remark My onlv answer, which I have repeatedly given, aml whicli I think perfectly satisfactorv, is, that ihc endow- ments of nature mav bc exccllcnt; and yct, by waut](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0318.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
