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lavater’s 
ESSAY XI, 
0?d Man : containing the Principles adopted for 
Studping Phpfiognomy . 
THE foregoing defcriptiou of the human figure 
leads to the ftudy of its feveral parts. 
ift. The Head ; 2d, the Trunk j and 3d, the 
Limbs, &c. 
ift. Man’s Head is the mod noble and efifential 
part, as the center of his intellectual faculties. His 
countenance alone would be expreflive, together 
with the fair proportions of his fkull, even were 
other parts of his body to be defective or disfigured. 
A head that ftrikes us at once as fitted to the 
whole perfon, neither too large nor too fmall, ge- 
nerally befpeaks a greater degree of found under- 
flanding than we have reafon to expedt from a 
thick, heavy, and clumfy block. A diminutive 
fize is the fign of weaknefs. It fliould be neither 
too much turned round-about, nor lengthened to an 
extreme.— ^Symmetry forms perfedlion j and we may 
confider as juft models, thofe heads whofe length, 
from the occiput to the tip of the nofe, is equal to 
their horizontal breadth. 
The face is divided into three parts. 
The 
