LOOKING-GLArSS. 
ESSAY iV 
Difcujfion of the Qiiejlion , — Whether Anatomical 
Knowledge might be acquired fufficiently zvithout 
Direction P Remarks on the Sports ^ Difcipline, 
and furgical Principles of the ancient Greeks. 
WHILE a fufficlent degree of anatomical know- 
ledge tends to afcertain juft proportions, it behoves 
a painter and phyfiognomift to be well acquainted 
with the mufcles, as on them depend a variety of 
forms and poftures. On this occafion it becomes a 
queftion defervingourferious confideration. Whether 
a courfe of fuch ftudies might be purfued equally 
well with or without mangled bodies, difguftin 
refined feelings? 
Inftead of difplaying openly the mufcular mtwimn- 
ifm upon alifelefs fubje6l, might not the fame ufeful 
purpofe be anfwered, were we to fet up, as obje£ts 
of ftudy, thofe excellent ftatues which are fuppofed 
to point out every diftin6lion in a true light ? Be- 
fides, we have perfect figures in wax, on which 
every fhade of Nature’s colours is duly preferved, — 
Or can we difpenfe with difle^tion, by fubftituting 
living 
