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ADDITIONS.

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EACH of the following additions, each species of animal, demonstrates, confirms, the proposition, that all nature is truth, and revelation.

Were I silent, the plate annexed would, itself, speak eloquently.

I particularly request that, in examining the countenances of beasts, peculiar attention may be paid to the proportion and arching of the forehead, to the position and distance of the eye, and still more to the line of the mouth.

1 How distant is the sheep from the human figure! How inactive, how patiently stupid! The head, rounded at the top, is incapable of every thing that can be called acuteness, or penetration. There is as little wildness and cruelty in the line of the mouth as in the form and position of the teeth.

2 The tiger, especially when seen in profile, approaches much nearer to the human form. Still the difference is astonishing.

How much more does the most oblique, most bent, profile, of the human form, approach the perpendicular, than does the profile of the tiger! The fiery, sharp-angled eyes, the broad flat nose, the uninterrupted connection of the nose, or rather what is analogous to the nose, with the mouth, and, especially, the line of the mouth, all betoken the fearfully brutal and the cruel.

3 The characteristic lines of grinding, ravenous brutality are visible, though not strong, in the fox. The acute angle formed by the eye, and sharp snout, is ticularly to be remarked.

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4 In the ass, impotent stupidity, helplessness, indocility. How much more stupid and mean than 3!

5 What mistrustful timidity, listening attention, agility, in the roe! How defenceless, how immensely dissimilar to the tiger, and how different is the line of this mouth to that above! How much more stupid and feeble!

6 Mean, ignoble, from the ear to the tip of the nose; excess of obscene sensuality in the basis of the snout; falsehood in the eyes; malignity in the mouth.

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