LOOKING-GLASS. 
HI 
But in the arrangement of profiles propofed, the 
forehead ought to form that diltinguifhing feature, 
according to which their various clatfes might be 
juftly fixed. Then were two foreheads to prefent 
a ftriking likenefs, there would be a foundation to 
fuppofe a degree of conformity in the fouls which 
animated any two bodies with fuch peculiarities as 
might appear from the correfponding curve and 
angle, which could be meafured exadtly, upon the 
large fiiado'w, from the top of the head down to 
that invifible line which pafles acrofs the crown to 
the root of the nofe and eye-brows. 
I he refuk of fuch obfervations will be a convic- 
tion that fimilar outlines of the head are attended 
with an equal conformity of faculties, and a like 
way of feeing, thinking, and feeling. It will like- 
wife be found, that, as every part of the globe has 
its difiinfi latitude and climate, fo all faces and 
foreheads are fliaped in a manner calculated fo^" 
their height and degree, of mental capacity. 
Such remarks as thefe admit of improvements, 
from a particular alphabet to be compofed for the 
regifter and claffing of foreheads ; fo that any one 
might be difiinguilhed, at firft fight, by a letter ex- 
prelfing its clafs, together with its generical and 
particular name. 
Our great mafter (Lavatcr) has promifed us a 
Treatife on this fubjeff, that fliall comprize every 
different form of foreheads. In the mean time, he 
advifes 
