nguishing in his bed, and has never been a oment absent; therefore, there is no actual ppearance of him whose form has appeared. That then has produced this appearance? What it that has acted thus at a distance on anoer's senses or imagination?-Imagination; but e imagination through the focus of passion.ow?—It is inexplicable. But who can doubt ich facts, who does not mean to laugh at all storical facts?

Is there any improbability, that there may be milar moments of mind, when the imagination all act alike inexplicably on the unborn child? hat the inexplicable disgusts, I will grant; I el it perfectly. But is it not the same in the regoing examples, and in every example of e kind? Like as cripples first become so any years after birth, which daily experience roves; may not, after the same inconceivable Janner, the seeds of what is gigantic or dwarfish e the effects of the imagination on the fruit, which does not make its appearance till years after the child is born?

Were it possible to persuade a woman to keep a accurate register of what happened, in all e powerful moments of imagination, during er state of pregnancy, she then might probably e able to foretel the chief incidents, philosophial, moral, intellectual, and physiognomonical, vhich should happen to her child. Imagination actuated by desire, love, or hatred, may, with more than lightning swiftness, kill or enliven,

enlarge, diminish, or impregnate, the organiz fœtus with the germ of enlarging or diminish ing wisdom or folly, death or life, which sha first be unfolded at a certain time, and und certain circumstances. This hitherto une plored, but sometimes decisive and reveal creative and changing power of the soul, m be, in its essence, identically the same with wh is called faith-working miracles, which latt may be developed and increased by extern causes, wherever it exists, but cannot be com municated where it is not, A closer examina tion of the foregoing conjectures, which I wis not to be held for any thing more than conjec tures, may perhaps lead to the profoundest se crets of physiognomy.

CHAP. XXIX.

Essay by a late learned Man of Oldenburg, M Sturtz, on Physiognomy, interspersed with shor Remarks by the Author.

“ LIKE Lavater, I am perfectly convinced of the truth of physiognomy, and of the all-significance of each limb and feature. Certain it is, that the mind may be read in the lineaments of the body and its motion in its features, and their shades. "Cause and effect, connexion and harmony exist through all nature; therefore, between the external and internal of man. Our form is influ

nced by our parents, by the earth on which we walk, the sun that warms us with his rays, the od that assimilates itself with our substance, he incidents that determine the fortune of our ves. These all modify, repair, and chissel forth he body, and the marks of the tool are apparent oth in body and in mind. Each arching, each nuosity of the externals adapts itself to the indiiduality of the internal. It is adherent and plible, like wet drapery. Were the nose but a little ltered, Cæsar would not be the Cæsar with hom we are acquainted.

"The soul being in motion, it shines through le body, as the moon through the ghosts of Osan, each passion throughout the human race as ever the same language."

From east and to west, envy no where looks. ith the satisfied air of magnanimity, nor will iscontent appear like patience. Wherever paience is, there is it expressed by the same signs, is likewise are anger, envy, and every other passion.

"Philoctetes certainly expresses not the sentation of pain like a scourged slave. The angels Raphael must smile more nobly than the anels of Rembrandt; but joy and pain still have ach their peculiar expression. They act accordng to peculiar laws upon peculiar muscles and nerves, however various may be the shades of

Those passages, which are not marked with inverted commas, are the observations of M. Lavater on the different parts of M. Sturtz's Essay.

their expression; and the oftener the passion is repeated, or set in motion, the more it becomes a propensity, a favourite habit, the deeper will be the furrows it ploughs.

"But inclination, capacity, modes and grada tions of capacity, talents, and an ability for busi ness, lie much more concealed. A good observer will discover the wrathful, the voluptuous, the proud, the discontented, the malignant, the bene volent, and the compassionate, with little difficulty. But the philosopher, the poet, the artist, and their various partitions of genius, he will be unable to determine with equal accuracy. And it will be still more difficult to assign the feature or trait in which the token of each quality is seated, whether understanding be in the eyebone, wit in the chin, and poetical genius in the

mouth."

Yet I hope, I believe, nay, I know, that the present century will render this possible. The penetrating author of this essay would not only have found it possible, but would have performed it himself, had he only set apart a single day to compare and examine a well-arranged collection of characters, either in nature, or well-painted portraits.

"Whenever we meet with a remarkable man, our attention is always excited, and we are more or less empirical physiognomists. We perceive in the aspect, the mien, the smile, the mechanism of the forehead, sometimes wit, at others penetration. We expect and presage, from the in

pulse of latent sensation, very determined qualities, from the form of each new acquaintance; and, when this faculty of judging is improved by an intercourse with the world, we often succeed to admiration in our judgment on strangers.

"Can we call this feeling, internal unacquired sensation, which is inexplicable, or is it comparison, indication, conclusion from a character we have examined to another which we have not, and occasioned by some external resemblance ? Feeling is the ægis of enthusiasts and fools, and, though it may often be conformable to truth, is still neither demonstration nor confirmation of truth; but induction is judgment founded on experience, and this way only will I study physiognomy.

"With an air of friendship I meet many strangers, with cool politeness I recede from others, though there is no expression of passion to attract, or to disgust. On farther examination, I always found, that I have seen in them some trait either of a worthy or a worthless person, with whom I was before acquainted.

“A child, in my opinion, acts from like motives, when he evades, or is pleased with, the caresses of strangers, except that he is actuated by more trifling signs, perhaps by the colour of the clothes, the tone of the voice, or often by some motion, which he has observed in the parent, the nurse, or the acquaintance.”

This cannot be denied to be often the case, and indeed much more often than is commonly sup

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