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he could not have perfifted in a Method of account- 
ing for its Paffi ons, by comparing the Faces of Men 
to thofe of Creatures, which can have no more Ana- 
logy to each other, than the forced Imaginations of 
his Brain could produce. 
XTIL 
Many of the Ancients were ftrongly of Opinion, 
that Mens Faces difcovered their Tempers: And this 
mud: have been founded chiefly upon a long Obfer- 
vation and Experience of the Tempers of Men with 
whom they had frequently converfed ; for theit Pe- 
netration in that Part of Anatomy had not gone fo far y 
as at pxefent it does with us. 
XIV. 
The Scholars of Socrates brought a noted Phy- 
fiognomift, Zopyrus , to their Matter, in order to 
try his Art 5 who viewing his Face for fome time, 
having had no previous Know lege of him, and after 
an Examination of his Afped, he foon pronounced him 
the mod lewd, drunken old Fellow he had ever met 
with : The Difciples mock’d and laugh’ at him, as be- 
lieving his Art of no Effed 5 but Socrates told 
them, he believed his Art might be true, notwith- 
ftanding his prefent Miftake, for that he himfelf was 
naturally inclined to. thofe particular Vices the Phy- 
fiognomift had difeover’d in his Countenance, but 
that he had conquered the ftrong Difpofitions he 
was born with by the Didates of Phiiofophy.. 
XV. 
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