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 beauties most adored, from the wretched pride of their silence, their measured affectation of speech, the insipidity of

their eyes, arrogantly overlooking misery and poverty, their authoritative nose, their languid, unmeaning lips, relaxed by contempt, blue with envy, and half bitten through by artifice and malice!-The obviousness of these, and many other characteristics, will preserve him who can see from the dangerous charms of their shameless bosoms! How fully convinced is the man of pure, physiognomonical sensation, that he cannot be more degraded than by suffering himself to be ensnared by such a countenance! Be this one proof among a thousand.

But if a noble spotless maiden but appear; all innocence, and all soul; all love, and of love all worthy, which must as suddenly be felt as she manifestly feels; if in her large arched forehead all the capacity of the immeasurable intelligence which wisdom can communicate be visible; if her compressed, but not frowning, eyebrows speak an unexplored mine of understanding, or her gentleoutlined or sharpened nose refined taste, with sympathetic goodness of heart, which flows through the clear teeth, over her pure and efficient lips; if she breathe humility and complacency; if condescension and mildness be in each motion of her mouth, dignified wisdom in each tone of her voice;

if her eyes, neither too open, nor too close, but looking straight forward, or gently turned, speak the soul that seeks a sisterly embrace; if she be superior to all the powers of description; if all the glories of her angelic form be imbibed like the mild and golden rays of an autumnal evening sun;may not then this so highly prized physiognomonical sensation be a destructive snare, or sin, or both?

"If thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light." (St. Luke xi. 34.) And what is physiognomonical sensation but this singleness of eye? The soul is not to be seen without the body, but in the body; and the more it is thus seen the more sacred to thee will the body be.-What! man,-having this sensation, which God has bestowed, wouldst thou violate the sanctuary of God? Wouldst thou degrade, defame, debilitate, and deprive it of sensibility? Shall he whom a good or great countenance does not inspire with reverence and love, incapable of offence, speak of physiognomonical sensation; of that which is the revelation of the spirit? Nothing maintains chastity so entire, nothing so truly preserves the thoughts from

brutal passion-nothing so reciprocally exalts souls as when they are mutually held in sacred purity. The contemplation of power awakens reverence, and the sense of love inspires love; not selfish gratification, but that pure passion with which spirits of hea

ven embrace.

XIII.

B.

MALE AND FEMALE.

IN general (for I neither can nor will state any thing but what is most known) how much more pure, tender, delicate, irritable, affectionate, flexible, and patient, is woman

than man.

The primary matter of which they are constituted appears to be more flexible, irritable, and elastic than that of man.

They are formed to maternal mildness, and affection; all their organs are tender, yielding, easily wounded, sensible, and receptible.

Among a thousand females there is scarcely one without the generic feminine signs; the flexible, the circular, and the irritable.

They are the counterpart of man, taken out of man, to be subject to man; to comfort him like angels, and to lighten his cares. "She shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety." (1 Tim. ii. 15.)