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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![firsi _<;lniict'. The hcad, es|)ecially llic h\ce, and llie lormatioii of the Hnn parts conipared lo the linn |>art'< oi other aniinals, conviiice tlie accurate observer, wlio is capable of in vcstigating truth^ ot' tlie >*realii(.‘ss and siiperiority oK liis intellectiial (jiialities. Theeye, ihe look, the cheeks, the mouth, tlie lorelieatl, whetlier consideied in a state oFen- tiie resl, or chiring llieir innuinerabic varicties ol' mution,—in fine, whatever is iinderstuud by |>liy- siugnoniy—ai(; tlie niost expressive, tbe inost eon- vineing pieture ol' interior sen.^atiijn, clesires, pas- sions, will, and of all those pruperties \'hich so inueli exalt mural above animal lil’e. Altlumgli the [ihysiological, intelleetiial, and moral lit'c ot' man, witli all tlieir subordinate pow- ers, and iheir eons.tinieni pai ts, >u eininently unito in om; being; ahlioiigli lliese three kinds of life do not, like three distinel l'amilies, reside in sepa- rate part-^ or stories ol' the body, bnt co-exist in one point, and bv tiicir eombination form one uhole; yct it is plain, that eacli of these powersof life has ils pceidiar Station, where il more csjieel- ally imtolds itsc.'ll and aels. It is beymid eontraiiietion evidetit, tliat, though ])liysiologieal or animal life di.>plays it->ell thtoiigh all the body, and espi’cially throngh all theatiinnd parts, yot it aets mory *'ons[)ienoiisly in the arm, trom the shotdder to th(' ends ol' the litigers. It is not h'ss oviflent, that intellcetual life, or thepowerol the imdmstanding atid the initid, make iheniselves most ap[»aretit in theeireinnferenee and tonn ot the solid parts of the head, espeeitdly the Jorehead; though ihey u ill iliseover themsclvcs to an attentive and aeenrate eye, in everv pari and point ot the human body, hy the eongeniality and harmony ot the various parts. 1«. thero anv occa- C Sion](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
