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LAVATER^S 
Lavater lays, that he blufhes for the age he lives 
in ; being under the neceflity of difcufling matters fo 
felf-evident as to flalh convidfion w'hen they come 
to be viewed with the clear light of Reafon, ah 
though they have been llrangely argued by pre- 
tended philofophers. 
Nature forms all creatures perfedi, in a mould 
where nothing feems to have been call: in feparate 
pieces, to be gradually matched with each other, 
as a mortal fculptor would do before he could imi- 
tate, in any degree, the belt models. This truth is 
then vifible all over the uniyerfe, from man down 
to the lowed: plant ; nor fliould we compare with 
either the mod beautiful Mofaic work, without 
feeling how inededlual our efforts would be to copy 
fuch an original. 
As an introdudlion to the knowledge of features, 
it is indifpenfable to dudy the order and harmony of 
the vifage in all its component parts, fo far as to 
comprehend and fee, at one view, all the didin- 
guifliing natural lines which differ from the effect 
of art, redraint, or didimulation ; nor mud a dudent 
defpair of making a fuccefsful progrefs, whenever 
he can difcern every kind of fuch original didinc- 
tions as form a driking contrad with fuperficial ap- 
pearances, acquired by thinking, habit, and educa- 
tion j for, whatever polifli may be derived from thefe 
circumdances, a man’s foul is to be feen through 
the natural veil (the body), independent of fuch 
gradual 
