nance impassioned: its effects though unresembling are general. The fortunate disciples, though they knew him not, yet did their hearts burn within them, while he talked with them by the way, and opened to them the Scriptures. (Luke xxiv. 32.) The buyers and sellers whom he drove out of the temple durst not oppose him.

Hence it may be conceived how certain persons, by their mere presence, have brought a seditious multitude back to their duty, although the latter had acquired the full power. That natural, unborrowed, indwelling power, which is consequently superior to any which can be assumed, is as evident to all eyes as the thunder of heaven is to all

ears.

5.

Great physiognomonical wisdom not only consists in discovering the general character of, and being highly affected by, the present countenance, or this or that particular propensity, but in discriminating the individual character of each kind of mind, and its capacity, and being able to define the circle beyond which it cannot pass; to say what sensations, actions, and judgments, are, or are not, to be expected from the man under consideration, that we may not idly waste

power, but dispense just sufficient to actuate, and put him in motion. No man is more liable to the error of thoughtless haste than I was. Four or five years of physiognomonical observation were requisite to cure me of this too hasty waste of

power. It is a part of benevolence to give, entrust, and participate; but physiognomy teaches when, how, and to whom to give. It, therefore, teaches true benevolence; to assist where assistance is wanted, and will be accepted. Oh! that I could call, at the proper moment, and with proper effect, to the feeling and benevolent heart.-Waste not.-Cast not thy seed upon the waters, or on a rock. -Speak only to the hearer.-Unbosom thyself but to those who can understand thee.Philosophize with none but philosophers.Spiritualize only with the spiritual!—It requires greater power to bridle strength than to give it the rein. To withhold is often better than to give. What is not enjoyed will be cast back with acrimony, or trodden to waste, and thus will become uscless to all.

6.

Be good to the good, resist not the irresistible countenance. Give the eye that asks, that comes recommended to thee by

Providence, or by God himself, and which to reject is to reject God, who cannot ask thee more powerfully than when intreating in a cheerful, open, innocent countenance. Thou canst not more immediately glorify God than by wishing and acting well to a countenance replete with the spirit of God; nor more certainly, and abhorrently, offend and wound the majesty of God, than by despising, ridiculing, and turning from such a countenance. God cannot more effectually move man than by man. Whoever rejects the man of God rejects God. To discover the radiance of the Creator in the visage of man is the pre-eminent quality of man; it is the summit of wisdom and benevolence to feel how much of this radiance is there, to discern this ray of divinity through the clouds of the most debased countenances, and to dig out this small gem of heaven from amid the ruins and rubbish by which it is encumbered.

7.

Friend of man, shouldest thou esteem physiognomy as highly as I do, to whom it daily becomes of greater worth, the more I discover its truth; if thou hast an eye to select the few noble, or that which is noble in

the ignoble, that which is divine in all men, the immortal in what is mortal, then speak little, but observe much; dispute not, but exercise thy sensation; for thou wilt convince no one to whom this sensation is wanting.

When thou shalt meet with noble poverty, a face in which humility, patience, faith, and love shine conspicuous, how superior will thy joy be in his words who has told thee, "in as much as thou hast done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, thou hast done it unto me!" (Matt. xxv. 40.)

When youth and dissipation present themselves, with a sigh of hope thou wilt exclaim, this forehead was delineated by God for the search and the discovery of truth! In this eye rests wisdom yet unripened!