128 LAVATER^S 
correrponding with precepts and the fruits of ro* 
flection. 
In no profeffion could an error be fo fatal, as in 
pronouncing rafhly upon a man’s charadter and 
good name from his leading features, according as 
they ftrike a ftranger, who had no better criterion 
for his determination of this point. A falfe prin^ 
ciple in our refearches might, therefore, be produc- 
tive of bad confequences to fociety. 
A few fafe rules may, however, be drawn from 
long contemplation, confiftent with a train of 
thoughts, partly fuggefted by Lavater. 
On this occafion we addrcfs, particularly, the 
rifing generation, under an idea that youth muft 
feel it a delightful talk to trace the marks of ideas, 
according as they flioot, with the different degrees 
of fympathy and antipathy felt even by children at 
an early age. Such feelings for and againft ftran- 
gers, at firft light, muft not, however, be confound- 
ed with impreffions of beauty or deformity, and 
notions conceived from a previous acquaintance, 
affection, or prejudice. 
Nor are our willies for fuccefs at any game be- 
tween two unknown players determined by con- 
fiderations of rank, and fortune when we have no 
intereft at ftake, efpecially if both their perfons ap- 
pear equally amiable ; but their fouls are not fo to 
the mind’s eye, and that inward monitor which 
direfts our caprice and fellow-feelings. 
Indeed. 
