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« their Diftortion and frowning; nor a fearful Man 
u by his Palenefs and Trembling 5 nor a melancholy 
<c Man, by his dark and deje&ed Countenance; nor, 
u in fine, a happy Temper, by a florid and cheer - 
<e ful Afpcft.” Indeed there is no great Art in feeing 
thefe Indications, which are obvious to the meaneft 
Capacities; but how they are fo, and the Reafons 
for them, this great Man has not thought worth 
while to explain. The fame may be faid of that 
great Matter le Bnm> who (in his Abrege dune 
Conference fur la Bhyfiognomie , at the End of his 
Book of the Paflions) lays great Strefs upon follow- 
ing the Traces of the Lineaments in the Faces of 
Brutes, in order to account for the Appetites and 
Paflions of Men. 
XII. 
J. Bapt . Porta , who is well known to the Men 
of Science of all Nations, built his Syftern of Phy- 
fiognomy upon that of Arifiotle\ which he attempted 
to explain, in a Book intituled, ‘De humana Bhy- 
fiognomta y &c. wherein he lays it down, as a certain 
Truth, that whofoever has a Likenefs in his Face to 
that of any other Animal (tho* never fo remote), his 
Frame of Mind and Paflions mutt; be the fame with 
thofe of thcAnimal whofe Refembiance he bears : And 
accordingly, he makes exaggerated Figures of Mens 
Countenances like Lions, Tigers, Lambs, and other 
Creatures, with Remarks upon them, in order to 
give Weight to the Syftern he lays down : But had 
he only ftudied the Parts which conftitute the Face, 
and their Obedience to the Impulfes of the Mind, 
he 
