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.)

This tenderness and sensibility, this light texture of their fibres and organs, this volatility of feeling, render them so easy to conduct and to tempt; so ready of submission to the enterprize and power of the man; but more powerful through the aid of their charms than man, with all his strength. The man was not first tempted, but the woman, afterwards the man by the woman. And not only easily to be tempted, she is capable of being formed to the purest, noblest, most seraphic virtue; to every thing which can deserve praise or affection.

Truly sensible of purity, beauty, and sym metry, she does not always take time to reflect on internal life, internal death, internal corruption. "The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise and she took of the fruit thereof."

The female thinks not profoundly; profoun

thought is the power of the man. Women feel more sensibility is the power of women. They often rule more effectually, more sovereignly than man. They rule with tender looks, tears, and sighs, but not with passion and threats; for, if they so rule, they are no longer women, but abortions.

They are capable of the sweetest sensibility, the most profound emotion, the utmost humility, and the excess of enthusiasm. In the countenance are the signs of sanctity and inviolability, which every feeling man honours, and the effects of which are often miraculous. Therefore by the irritability of their nerves, their incapacity for deep inquiry and firm decision, they may easily, from their extreme sensibility, become the most irreclaimable, the most, rapturous enthusiasts.

The love of woman, strong and rooted as it is, is very changeable; their hatred almost incurable, and only to be effaced by continued and artful flattery. Men are most profound, women are more sublime. Men most embrace the whole; women remark individually, and take more delight in selecting the minutia which -form the whole. Man hears the bursting thunders, views the destructive bolt with serene aspect, and stands erect amidst the fearful majesty of the streaming clouds. Woman trembles at the lightning and the voice of distant thunder, and shrinks into herself, or sinks into the arms of

man.

A ray of light is singly received by man, woman delights to view it through a prism, in all its dazzling colours. She contemplates the rainbow as the promise of peace; he extends his inquiring eye over the whole horizon.

Woman laughs, man smiles; woman weeps, man remains silent. Woman is in anguish when man weeps, and in despair when man is in anguish; yet has she often more faith than man. Without religion, man is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well, and needs not a physician but woman, without religion, is raging and monstrous. A woman with a beard is not so disgusting as a woman who acts the free-thinker; her sex is formed to pity and religion. To them Christ first appeared; but he was obliged to prevent them from too ardently and too hastily embracing him— Touch me not. They are prompt to receive and seize novelty, and become its enthusiasts.

In the presence and proximity of him they love, the whole world is forgotten. They sink into, the most incurable melancholy, as they rise to the most enraptured heights.

There is more imagination in male sensation, in the female more heart. When communicative, they are more communicative than man; when secret, more secret. In general they are more patient, long-suffering, credulous, benevolent, and modest.

Woman is not a foundation on which to build. She is the gold, silver, precious stones, wood,

hay, stubble; (1 Cor. iii. 12.) the materials for building on the male foundation. She is the leaven, or, more expressively, the oil to the vinegar of man; the second part to the book of man. Man singly, is but half a man, at least but half human; a king without a kingdom. Woman, who feels properly what she is, whether still or in motion, rests upon the man; nor is man what he may and ought to be but in conjunction with woman. Therefore it is not good that man should be alone, but that he should leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and that they two shall be one flesh."

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A Word on the physiognomonical Relation of the Sexes.

Man is the most firm, woman the most flexible. Man is the straightest, woman the most bending. Man stands stedfast, woman gently retreats. Man surveys and observes, woman glances and feels.

Man is serious, woman is gay.

Man is the tallest and broadest, woman the smallest and weakest.

Man is rough and hard, woman is smooth and soft.

Man is brown, woman is fair.

Man is wrinkly, woman is not.

The hair of man is strong and short, of woman more long and pliant.

The eyebrows of man are compressed, of woman less frowning.

Man has most convex lines, woman most concave.

Man has most straight lines, woman most curved.

The countenance of man, taken in profile, is not so often perpendicular as that of the woman. Man is the most angular, woman most round.

CHAP. XXXV.

On the Physiognomy of Youth.

Extracts from Zimmerman's Life of Haller.

"THE first years of the youth include the history of the man. They develop the qualities of the soul, the materials of future conduct, and the true features of temperament. In riper years dissimulation prevails, or, at least, that modifica tion of our thoughts, which is the consequence of experience and knowledge.

"The characteristics of the passions, which are undeniably discovered to us by the peculiar art denominated physiognomy, are effaced in the countenance by age; while, on the contrary, their true signs are visible in youth. The original materials of man are unchangeable; he is drawn in colours that have no deceit. The boy is the work of nature, the man of art."

My worthy Zimmerman, how much of the true, how much of the false, at least of the inde