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others to fuch a diverfity of actions, and 
who may be faid to vegetate rather than 
live, fubfifting only by the affiduous atten¬ 
tion of their parents, have the fprings of 
the brain ill-arranged and inert. 
One cannot perceive, entertain, defire, 
enjoy the fweets of life, in fhort, be 
capable of fentiment when this organ does 
not re-adt. It does not re-adt, or at leaft 
only in a fmall i degree in perfons whofe 
figure is unexpreffive, and thefe are gene¬ 
rally ftupid, or in other words, good fort 
of people. Their heart is hardly moved, 
and only by ftrong impreffions, and its 
motions are merely tranfient. 
On the contrary, a ftrong re-adtion im- 
preffes on the front, in the eyes, in the 
whole countenance, the living characters 
of the foul; and an expreffive phyfiognomy 
always indicate a man fufceptible of paf- 
fion. The violence of the paffions is in 
proportion to the re-adtion of which we 
are 
