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lavater’s 
living fubje6ts, whofe attitudes, mien, and motions, 
might ferve as imitable marks ? 
However plaufible the objections to anatomy 
might appear, they would prove in Reafon’s eye to 
be frivolous pretences, fuggefted by lazy ftudents, 
adopted by men of middling abilities, and defpifed 
by the mod celebrated profeifors ; for, upon reflec- 
tion, it muft be found, that, perfeCt as figures in 
brafs, wax, or marble, maybe in the likenefs of an 
original, they do not difcover the Supreme Defign- 
er’s inward machinery, in a manner fuited to all 
thofe violent evolutions and forced fituations which 
a living model could not bear. Or, even were it 
otherwife, we could only judge of elfeCts apparently, 
without tracing them to their real caufes, as we 
can do upon bloodlefs bodies, with the inexpreflible 
fatisfaCiion attending every gradual difeovery, w^hich 
enables us to account for the flighted; vifible varia- 
tion in fuch parts as become objeCts of contempla- 
tion or imitation. 
It is after having dudied in this manner, that a 
pupil ought to attain a proficiency in drawing, be- 
fore he fliould be permitted to ufe thofe fubditutes 
for Ikeletons, which Art has fo numeroufly multi- 
plied for his ufe ; at the fame time he would retain 
in his memory the principles of odeology, retraced 
by the fight of living creatures, whofe gedures 
might be rendered a fubje6l of daily obfervation, to 
prove 
