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ternal parts of the body, as fome to the heart, 

 others to the liver, fpleen, &c. On this falfe 

 fuppofition, and on many others equally extra- 

 tnt, the principles of chiromancy are found- 

 ed : and on which, however, feveral authors, 

 as Robert Flud, an Englimman , Artemidorus , 

 M. de la Chambre , John of Indagina ; and 

 many others, have wrote large treadles. Phy- 

 Jicgnom)\ or Phyfionomancy^ is a fcience that pre- 

 tends to teach the nature, the temperament, the 

 underftanding, and the inclinations of men, by 

 the infpection of their countenances, and is there- 

 fore very little lefs frivolous than chiromancy ; 

 though Anliiotle, and a number of learned men 

 after him, have wrote exprefs treadles concern- 

 ing it. 



XI. (10.) In the rank of pretended and dan- 

 gerous fciences, we may alfo place thofe fanadco- 

 myftico-theologic doclrines, which ftill re- 

 main in the world, and thofe books which fpiri- 

 tual vifionaries have wrote on thefe matters, and 

 which others, equally weak, think they under- 

 ftand. We have had a very renowned genius 

 of this kind, in Germany, named Jacob Bohem, 

 and he has had, for fuccefTors, fome authors not 

 unworthy of him, and many dark preachers. 

 Thefe are conltantly a fet of impoftors, who 

 cover the truth with impenetrable darknefs : 

 who pretend to have fome particular lights ? 

 fecret and occult fciences, on thofe fubjecls that 



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