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Lavater’s 
This appears to be the only method of fixing a 
fundamental principle for acquiring the t’neory and 
improving the pra6lice of phyfiology, according to 
the rules adopted by the beft painters in their pro- 
feffion. After a juft imprelhon of thefe traits, the 
forehead, the eye-brows, the nofe, and intervening 
fpace,, ought to attraff equally the ftudent’s atten- 
tion ; particularly that ftriking angle which is form- 
ed by the tip of the nofe and upper lip, either 
ffraight, fat, or pointed, with fuch a difference in 
the length on the fides as will not efcape his 
notice. 
Seen fidewa) s, the mouth ftrikes us only in three 
principal forms ; either the upper lip paffes over the 
under one, or the latter pouts up, or both when 
clofed are equal on a parallel line. 
A right defeription of the chin admits of the 
fame diffindfions ; it is either perpendicular, a peak, 
or floping inwards : the bottom will form an hori- 
zontal line more or lefs ffraight. The bent in the 
jaw-bone deferves the clofeft obfervation, as it in- 
dicates different qualities of the mind. 
On this OGcafion the great Profeffor lun-afer 
fays, that ofteology, or the fyffem of the bones, 
were it properly ffudied, would produce fuch dif- 
coveries as he points out, by afferting that an able 
blind-folded Phyfiognomift might find out, in great 
mealure, a charaflcr that had bid defiance to all 
vefcarches. 
