My 1 race. Any man of the world must know e of them than I can pretend to know. ortunities of seeing them at the theatre, at s, or at the card-table, where they best may tudied, have been exceedingly few. In my th, I almost avoided women, and was never )ve. erhaps I ought, for this very reason, to have this very important part of physiognomy to. much better informed, having myself so little wledge of the fair sex. Yet might not such lect have been dangerous? Might another treated the subject in the manner which I d wish? or, would he have said the little I to say, and which, though little, I esteem e necessary and important? cannot help shuddering when I think how essively, how contrary to my intention, the dy of physiognomy may be abused, when aped to women. Physiognomy will perhaps e no better than philosophy, poetry, physic, whatever may be termed art or science. A the philosophy leads to atheism, and much to ristianity. Thus must it be with physiognomy; t I will not be discouraged; the half precedes whole. We learn to walk by falling, and all we forbear to walk lest we should fall? I can with certainty say, that true pure physimomonical sensation, in respect to the female x, best can season and improve life, and is the most effectual preservative against the depredaon of ourselves and others. Best can season and improve human lifeWhat better can temper manly rudeness, or strengthen and support the weakness of ma what so soon can assuage the rapid blaze wrath, what more charm masculine power, wha so quickly dissipate peevishness and ill temper what so well can wile away the insipid tedio hours of life, as the near and affectionate look a noble, beautiful woman? What is so strong her soft delicate hand? What so persuasive her tears restrained? Who but beholding he must cease to sin? How can the spirit of Go act more omnipotently upon the heart, than the extending and increasing physiognomonica sensation for such an eloquent countenance What so well can season daily insipidity? scarcely can conceive a gift of more patern and divine benevolence! This has sweetened every bitter of my life, th alone has supported me under the most corrodin cares, when the sorrows of a bursting hear wanted vent. My eyes swam in tears, and m spirit groaned with anguish. Then when me have daily asked, "where is now thy God? when they rejected the sympathy, the affection of my soul, with rude contemptuous scorn; wher acts of honest simplicity were calumniated, an the sacred impulse of conscious truth wa ridiculed, hissed at, and despised; in those burning moments, when the world afforded no comfort, even then did the Almighty open mine eyes, even then did he give me an unfailing rce of joy, contained in a gentle, tender, but ernally firm, female mind; an aspect like that unpractised, cloistered virginity, which felt, I was able to efface each emotion, each passion he most concealed feature of her husband's ntenance, and who, by those means, without thing of what the world calls beauty, shone h beauteous as an angel. Can there be a re noble or important practice than that of siognomonical sensation for beauties so tivating, so excellent as these? his physiognomonical sensation is the most tual preservative against the degradation of selves and others. What can more readily over the boundary between appetite and afion, or cunning under the mask of sensibility? at sooner can distinguish desire from love, or from friendship? What can more reverently, ernally, and profoundly feel the sanctity of ocence, the divinity of maiden purity, or ner detect coquetry unblessed, with wiles, cting every look of modesty? How often will ch a physiognomist turn contemptuous from beauties most adored, from the wretched pride their silence, their measured affectation of ech, the insipidity of their eyes, arrogantly erlooking misery and poverty, their authoritae nose, their languid, unmeaning lips, relaxed contempt, blue with envy, and half bitten rough by artifice and malice! The obviousness these and many others will preserve him, who see from the dangerous charms of their shameless bosoms! man of pure physiognomonical sensation, that he cannot be more degraded than by suffering inself to be ensnared by such a countenance Be this one proof among a thousand. How fully convinced is the But if a noble, spotless maiden but appear; all innocence, and all soul; all love, and of love worthy, which must as suddenly be felt as she manifestly feels; if in her large arched forehea all the capacity of immeasurable intelligen which wisdom can communicate be visible; her compressed but not frowning eyebrows spea an unexplored mine of understanding, or bet gentle outlined or sharpened nose, refined taste with sympathetic goodness of heart, which flows through the clear teeth, over her pure and efficient lips; if she breathe humility and co placency; if condescension and mildness be in each motion of her mouth, dignified wisdom in each tone of her voice; if her eyes, neither to open nor too close, but looking straight forward or gently turned, speak the soul that seeks a sisterly embrace; if she be superior to all the powers of description; if all the glories of her angelic form be imbibed like the mild and golden rays of an autumnal evening sun; may not then this so highly-prized physiognomonical tion be a destructive snare or sin, or both? sensa "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light." And what is physi ognomonical sensation but this singleness of eye The soul is not to be seen without the body, but in the body; and the more it is thus seen, the more sacred to thee will the body be. What! man, having this sensation, which God has bestowed, wouldst thou violate the sanctuary of God? Wouldst thou degrade, defame, debilitate, and deprive it of sensibility? Shall he, whom a good or great countenance does not inspire with reverence and love, incapable of offence, speak of physiognomonical sensation; of that which is the revelation of the spirit? Nothing maintains chastity so entire, nothing so truly preserves the thoughts from brutal passion, nothing so reciprocally exalts souls, as when they are mutually held in sacred purity. The contemplation of power awakens reverence, and the picture of love inspires love; not selfish gratification, but that pure passion with which spirits of heaven embrace. CHAP. XXXIV. General Remarks on Male and Female.-A Word on the physiognomonical Relation of the Sexes. GENERALLY speaking, how much more pure, tender, delicate, irritable, affectionate, flexible, and patient, is woman than man! The pri mary matter of which they are constituted appears to be more flexible, irritable, and elastic, than that of man. They are formed to maternal L |