VI 
INTRODUCTION. 
taking off the fuperficial view of living creatures, 
with the drefs peculiar to each nation. 
But naturalifts will inform him, as we do, that 
between one caff of people and another there are 
fliades of difference, as well as through the whole 
creation, from man and beaft down to the plant. 
For inftance, a Dutchman’s fkull is rounder, has 
larger and more regular bones, with the hollow part 
about the cheek bone not fo even as others. 
In like manner, animals and plants, of the fame 
country and fpecies, differ remarkably in colour, 
lize, conftitution, and length of life. 
Hiftoricai painters and limners will appreciate 
remarks of this fort and others, abundantly fupplied 
by Lavater. From fuch {lores we fliall occafionally 
ehufe a portion, in the courfe of oiir following mei* 
ditations. 
LAVATER’S 
