Excerpt from Essays on Physiognomy, Vol. 2: Calculated to Extend the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind
I admit, in the firfi place, that there is fomewhat of veracity in this aphorifm I (hall, however, attempt to prove, in a few words, that the phyfionomift may appear to be impofed on, and even that the more an adept he is, the, more he mutt feem to be mifiaken, though, in eti'eét, his conclufions be well fanftioned.
Thus, we allow, that the phyfionomifi is at times deceived We mull, however, maintain, that his mlflakes are decifive of nothing more than the confined nature of his intellect but it does not any way enfue, that the fcience is fallacious. To infer from the errors of the phyfionomifi, that phy fiognomy in general de ferves no confidence; 13 equivalent to afferting, that the human underfianding is an abfolute chimera, becaufe every reafonabie manimay chance at times to aét in oppofition to that reafcn.
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