dent;" (in a world where nothing happens by accident.) “An angular, a round, a flat, or an arched forehead, may contain the same talents, and the same endowments of mind, in the same degree."-What answer can be made?-None, but see and decide.

XIV.

NOTHING is more evident to each man conversant with the world, who does not pretend to understand any thing of physiognomonical outlines, than that this, which is merely an outline, betokens fine feeling and thinking; mildness of mind, without powerful or enterprising strength. The position of the forehead shews, in part, a clear and brilliant fancy, and in part free, but not very prompt, or elastic, productive powers.

XV.

CIRCUMSPECTION, consideration, order, skill in business, cold fidelity, are here naturally expected: but, certainly, not from the outline of this forehead, the flights of the poet, or the profound enquiries of the metaphysician. I mean not to dogmatize; I appeal to experience. Shew me such a forehead with either of these capacities.