150 
tAVATER’s 
Whoever doubts this principle need give himfelf 
no turther pains to learn Phytiology. 
rile handtoinefl: face is liable to be injured, and 
the uglieft w'ill admit of embellifliments ; while 
neither lofcs by thefe changes that primitive ftamp 
by which it was lirll diflinguiflied. 
Wdnle a promifing youth fiudies thofe variations, 
for the better or worth, let him connefl; the idea of 
a good adtion with an ugly countenance, and con- 
ceive beauty fpoiled by vice. 
The motl expreffive traits indicate ftrong facul- 
ties i but the want of fuch outward figns afford no 
proofs of weaknefs. 
, Whenever a very difproportioned vifage comes 
in OLii way, we fliould perufe every line in it care- 
fully, cfpccially if we could match it with another 
of an oppofite defcription, fo as to furnifh at once 
the two extremes of perfcflion and deformity, 
.which would be a pleafing fight to a curious 
Phyfiognomifi:, who might then truft to the firfl 
impreflions that they made on his mind, rather than 
to his own obfervations on fo ill-matched a couple ‘ 
yet, whatever he felt on feeing them together, and 
reading over the leffon that fuch confrafted traits 
prefented, it would be incumbent on him to trace 
his emotions to their pure fource at the fame time ; 
that, by drawing every feature, form, and mien, he 
might appeal to feveral judges, from his owm felf- 
evidence or confcious knowledge of Nature’s lan- 
guage. 
