G.

CHIN,

I AM, from numerous experiments, convinced that the projecting chin ever denotes something positive, and the retreating something negative.

The presence, or absence, of strength in man, is often signified by the chin.

I never have seen sharp indentings in the middle of the chin but in men of cool understanding, unless when something evidently contradictory appeared in the coun

tenance.

The pointed chin is generally held to be a sign of acuteness and craft, though I know very worthy persons with such chins. Their craft is the craft of the best dramatic poetry.

The soft, fat double chin, generally points out the Epicure.

The angular chin is seldom found but in discreet, well disposed, firm men.

Flatness of chin speaks the cold and dry, smallness fear, and roundness, with a dimple, benevolence.

XII.

WOMEN.

A.

GENERAL REMARKS.

I MUST premise, I am but little acquainted with the female part of the human race. Any man of the world must know more of them than I can pretend to know; my opportunities of seeing them at the theatre, at balls, or at the card table, where they best may be studied, have been exceedingly few. In my youth I almost avoided women, and was never in love.

For this reason, perhaps I ought to have left this very important part of physiognomy to one much better informed, having myself so little knowledge of the fair sex.

Yet might not such neglect have been dangerous? Might another have treated the subject in the manner which I could wish? Or would he have said the little I have to say; and which, though little, I esteem to be important and necessary?

I frequently shudder while I think how excessively, how contrary to my intention, the study of physiognomy may be abused, when applied to women.

I often reflect that physiognomy will fare no better than philosophy, poetry, physic, or whatever may be termed art or science. A little philosophy leads to Atheism, much to Christianity. Thus must it be with physiognomy.

But I will not be discouraged. The half precedes the whole. We learn to walk by falling, and shall we forbear to walk lest we should fall?

I can say with certainty true pure physiognomonical sensation, in respect to the female sex, best can season and improve life, and is the most effectual preservative against the degradation of ourselves or others.

Best can season and improve human Life. What better can temper manly rudeness, or strengthen and support the weakness of man; what so soon can assuage the rapid blaze of wrath; what more charm masculine power; what so quickly dissipate peevishness and ill temper; what so well can wile away the insipid tedious hours of life, as the

near and affectionate look of a noble beautiful woman? What is so strong as her soft and delicate hand? What so persuasive as her tears restrained? Who but beholding her must cease to sin? How can the spirit of God act more omnipotently upon the heart, than by the extending, and increasing, physiognomonical sensation for such an eloquent countenance? What so well can season daily insipidity? I scarcely can conceive a gift of more paternal and divine benevolence. This has sweetened every bitter of my life: this alone has supported me under the most corroding cares, when the sorrows of a bursting heart wanted vent. My eyes swam in tears, and my spirit groaned with anguish. Then when men have daily asked, "where is now thy God?" when they rejected the sympathy, the affection of my soul, with rude contemptuous scorn; when acts of honest simplicity were calumniated, and the sacred impulse of conscious truth was ridiculed, hissed at, and despised; in those burning moments, when the world af forded no comfort,-even then did the Almighty open my eyes; even then did he give me an unfailing source of joy, contained in a gentle, tender, but internally firm, fe

male mind; an aspect like that of unpractised, cloistered virginity, which felt, and was able to efface, each emotion, each passion, in the most concealed feature of her husband's countenance, and who, by that means, without any thing of what the world calls beauty, shone forth beauteous as an angel.

Can there be a more noble or important practice than that of a physiognomonical sensation for beauties so captivating, so excellent, as these?

This Physiognomonical Sensation is the most effectual Preservative against the Degradation of ourselves and others.

What sooner can discover the boundary between appetite and affection, or cunning under the mask of sensibility; what sooner can distinguish desire from love, or love from friendship? What can more reverently, internally, and profoundly feel the sanctity of innocence, the divinity of maiden purity, or sooner detect coquetry unblessed, with wiles affecting every look of modesty? How often will such a physiognomist turn contemptuous from the beautics most adored, from the wretched pride of their silence, their measured affectation of speech, the insipidity of