muscles depends on these. How may the muscle of the forehead have the position proper for thought, if the forehead bones, over which it is extended, have not the necessary arch and superficies? The figure of the scull, therefore, defines the figure and position of the muscles, which define thought and sensation.

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"The same may be observed of the hair, from the parts and position of which conclusions may be drawn. Why has the negro woolly hair? The thickness of the skin prevents the escape of certain of the particles of perspiration, and these render the skin opaque and black; hence the hair shoots with difficulty, and scarcely has it penetrated before it curls, and its growth ceases. The hair spreads according to the form of the scull, and the position of the muscles, and gives occasion to the physiognomist to draw conclusions from the hair to the position of the muscles, and to deduce other consequences."

In my opinion our author is in the right road. He is the first, who, to my knowledge, has perceived and felt the totality, the combination, the uniformity, of the various parts of the human body. What he

has affirmed, especially concerning the hair, that we may from that make deductions concerning the nature of the body, and still farther of the mind, the least accurate observer may convince himself is truth, by daily experience. White, tender, clear, weak, hair always denotes weak, delicate, irritable, or rather a timid and easily oppressed, organization. The black and curly will never be found on the delicate, tender, medullary head. As is the hair so are the muscles, as muscles so the nerves, as the nerves so the the bones; as some or all of these so the powers of the mind to act, suffer, receive, and give. Least irritability always accompanies short, hard, curly, black hair; and most the flaxen and the tender; that is to say, irritability without elasticity. The one is oppressive without elasticity, and the. other oppressed without resistance.

"Much hair much fat, therefore no part of the human body is more conspicuously covered with hair than the head and armpits. Withof remarks (Allgemeines Magazin. IV. Theil) that, in these parts, there are numerous small cells (cellulæ adiposa) and where these are not there is no hair.

"From the elasticity of the hair deductions may, with certainty, be made to the elasticity of the character.

"The hair naturally betokens moisture, and may properly determine the quantity of moisture.

"The inhabitants of cold countries have hair more white, and, on the contrary, those of hot countries, black.

"Lionel Wafer observes, that the inhabitants of the Isthmus of Darien have milk white hair. Few, if any, have green hair, except those who work in copper mines:

"We seldom shall find white hair betokening dishonesty, but often dark brown or black, with light coloured eyebrows.

"Women have longer hair than men, Men with long hair"-(which long hair is generally light coloured, at least I have never seen remarkably long black hair)--" Men with long hair are always rather effeminate than manly, therefore-doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him? Dark hair is harsher than light, as is the hair of a man than that of a boy. The ancients called him savage who had rough hair.

Hispida membra quidein et dura per brachia setæ
Promittunt atrocem animum.

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"As all depends on the quality of the muscles, it is evident that in these muscles, which are employed for certain modes of

thought and sensation, ought to be sought the expression of similar thoughts and sensations."

Let not the search be neglected; though, probably, it will be difficult to find them; and they will, certainly, be there defined with greater difficulty than in the forehead.

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“The muscle of the forehead is the instrument most important to the abstract thinker, for which reason we always seek for abstract thought in the forehead."-Rather near and between the eyebrows. It is of consequence to remark the particular moment when the thinker is listening, or when he is preparing some acute answer. Seize that moment, and another of the important tokens of physiognomy is obtained.

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"Among people who do not abstract, and whose powers of mind are all in action, men of wit, exquisite taste, and genius, all the muscles must be advantageously formed and arranged: expression, therefore, in such, must be sought in the whole countenance." -Yet may it be found in the forehead alone, which is less sharp, straight-lined, perpendicular and forked. The skin is less rigid, more casily moved, more flexible.

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"How great has been the trouble to convince people that physiognomy is only generally useful!"-(It is disputed, at this very moment, by men of the strongest minds. How long shall it continue so to be? Yet I should suppose that he who curses the sun, while exposed to its scorching rays, would, when in the shade, acknowledge its universal utility.)" How afflicting is it to hear, from persons of the greatest learning, and who might be expected to enlarge the boundaries of human understanding, the most superficial judgments! How much is that great æra to be wished when the knowledge of man shall become a part" (Why not the chief part, the central point?)" of natural history; when psychology, physiology, and physiognomy shall go hand in hand, and lead us toward the confines of more general, more sublime, illumination !"