aciduous quality, and so frequently to be repeated, that the teeth are greatly injured thereby. On this account, therefore, the young physionomist should be careful in forming a judgment on this point.

I could have wished to have made some observations on the Ear, the Neck, the Hair, &c.; but I must forbear, for the present, åt least; and will close these details, by a solemn appeal to the candour, the good sense, and sober judgment of the reader, whether I have not proved my proposition, as clearly as any fact can be proved, that Physiognomy is really and trada a science.

I ask not whether my premises are sound, er my conclusions from them just. Allow me but a moiety of them-nay, grant me but any portion of them, and my point is proved.

I have said that Physiognomy lays down certain rules, signs, and traits, by which certain facts are infallibly deducible. And does it

not? Sneering is no answer-notes of interrogation, and those of incredulous admiration, are no parts of logical acumen; neither is positive, downright denial any proof that such or such a proposition is not founded in truth. Let us then advance to the argument boldly, but candidly. Let us see whether all that experience has taught us on this subject, is mere delusion and caprice. If the affirmative of this shall be established, then will I confess my error; and, still acknowledging and adoring the wisdom and power of the Creator, will

Wait the great teacher, Death;

When, haply, in some other more advanced scene and stage of existence, I may be enabled to fathom the mighty mystery, how such great, such distinct, such palpable, such obvious effects, that in this life have pressed upon my heart and mind, with the overwhelming power of demonstration, have all resulted from no apparent cause, and have been dancing before the bewildered imaginations of mankind, from

the first dawnings of animal life, to the period of their return to that state of inert matter, from which the fiat of the Almighty called them into being.

But let me not, from any dread of singularity, or to avoid the scoffings of the scornful, resign a truth so important, lest I be found to libel THAT BEING, WHOSE "INVISIBLE THINGS, FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, ARE

CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD

THINGS THAT ARE MADE.”

BY THE

SECTION III.

OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

TEMPERAMENTS,

BY THE EDITOR.

THE following hasty and imperfect remarks on the temperaments, are grounded on the conclusion that the general character and habitudes of the mind, as well as the constitutional tendencies of the body, are depicted on the countenance. There appears to exist in all persons, a natural and, perhaps, instinctive propensity to interpret mental and moral qualities by the signs which Physiognomy presents, and this propensity is evident in those who deny that there is any thing like a science of Expression. One thing is certain, that if any reliance, whatever,

is to be placed on expression, that expression must depend, first, on the permanent form of the countenance; and, secondly, on the changes which it occasionally undergoes. If unchangeable characters of feature and complexion can be seized, and identified with certain intellectual and moral attributes, such concomitancy being ascertained in a sufficient number of instances, the science of Expression, as far as it goes, becomes inductive. It may not extend to many cases in which we may feel an anxiety to apply it, but it holds no less certainly in those in which the connection between animal forms and intellectual and moral powers and habitudes has been constantly detected. Having paid considerable attention to the arguments employed by numerous objectors to Physiognomy as a science, I am persuaded they are grounded principally on the wrong notion entertained of its object, on an indefinite and obsure perception of the difficulty of understanding the real connection between form and expression.

The truth and certainty, however, of the ef