43 8 On Pbyftognomy. 



7. His introduftion of obje<5ls fuch as the 

 preceding, is the more fingular, from the 

 flight and inadequate attention he appears 

 hitherto to have beftowed, on gefture, voice, 

 manner, and the important topic of national 

 phyfiognomy. All of which he has indeed in 

 fome degree touched upon, but far lefs than 

 fafts might have warranted, or their import- 

 ance demanded. * 



8. The repeated introduction of his own face 

 throughout the courfe of the work, and the 

 fingular remarks he makes on it, although his 

 charafter may fully juftify the truth of them, 

 do not ferve to prejudice the reader in favour 

 of his judgment, t 



9. The fame obfervation may be made on 

 his Angularly fanciful Theory of Apparitions, 



confideration every part of the body in its turn. But the 

 manner of M. Lavater, profefledly defultory, did not 

 lead him to this ; and he has even exceeded the faults of 

 predecefTors, by the introduftion of phyfiognomical ob- 

 fervations, on the hand writing, on infefts, &c. which 

 the prefent ftate of phyfiognomy is very ftiort indeed of 

 being fo far advanced as to include. 



* What the fourth volume will include we cannot yet 

 fay ; but from the ftiort profpeSlus of the fubjefts, which 

 the editors give in the preface to the third volume, the 

 topics mentioned in the text do not feem to be fafficiently 

 included in the plan. 



t Vol. II. p. 201, 202, 203, 204: with thefe compare 

 vol. II. p. 8. and vol. I. p. 14, 166. 



which 



