On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
fc fftHP ^ h ^ w *^ & ? ms' " « ge * ks , ' says a gpo ^ l ^ njer , * a language peculiar to itself , anticipating
a ^ outstripping all others in rapidity ; to ^ acU is general to ail nations , and intelligible to every individualof the whole imuiiui race : by this language have 0 jir . circum-navigators been able to hold ? converse with , aod interchange
civili--ti ^ between themselves aqd the untutored inhabitants of remote regions . l ^ y cn the brute animals , whom man ^ as domesticated and made his occa-^ sioiial companions , are not ignorant of £ his kind of expression ; when the -dog wants to know the commands of fss master , unable to understand them
4 % . the complicated sounds of his speech , he looks intently upon his face , and endeavours to collect from it his ^ fishesand the disposition with which ¦ f ^ e rega rd s him . AH the affections and passions of ^ he mind are more or
iess pourtrayed in turn in this very iieqtited but expressive field ; love , pity , ^ courage , fear , calmness , anger , a $ & every other marked condition of t ^ e mind gives a peculiar disposition tQ-either the whole or some features of
the face ; and when they are impressed -by characters expressive of virtue and wretched ness , of injury and innocence , O !» r < 'iieelings are awakened , and the ugliest sympathies of our nature are GffHed forth in favour of the sufferers . " j , Ji may be observed , that to the size a $ d proportion of the bones undera ^ &ath , and which constitute the basis < # the face , the , difference of
fea-< ti& * 6 k is to be principally attributed ; -yotttta , age > sickness , health , and even ijie stronger atSections of the mind , no tlojabt have an effect in changing the countenance ; but that diversity of ftatore consisting of the difference of
Je ^ g-th , breadth * or ^ projecdon , depends afacfltyupofi the bony frame that JUes * % HSl 0 w it , Hence arise the Aquiline , HtwMtpri ^ Gjittn and the African nose , & c , , * l ^; high . chee | is of tihe Tartars , and the more regular opes of fche people
inha-Hifcina ; the West of Europe : the same TOayctaresaid of the other . ^ fefituFes , and J ffr } m -this ^ djffferen oe i » thwn is that ^ jgiriplbf ^ Wersfey , produced * , which . gives Hwrietyito ttie eoaot ^ nafice ^ not or ^ ly difcpatioDS but al ^ o of i iKi i ^ ictviaJs ; so tfaat b « two ^ ef tb £ / v ^ Jtole famiW of jnacniiind ctittld be ^ O ^ nd e ^^ c tly ali ^ QHtlt ^ twit / l 6 ^ idmg rtfe * 3 w ^ r ^ rful JHmbt * i % y 9 - yrcpi ^ itt . ^ Qlir ^ tO &upp ^ e ^ fth »|^ the mcfiTidMalfeaturo comjio&ipg eonh
Untitled Article
face ate dijfferen t from tjiose of all oth er faces ; the features may be ' corife gj ^ arid limited to a certain number df kinds ; but each is , probably , capaM ^ of an indefinite nurpber of combinii
tions with other features ; and , thrtt % from twenty-four letters all the wo rd * composing a languajge are constituted so are produced ^ from , perhaps , a very few kinds of features , by transposition and various composition , the astonisiiing and beautiful variety of faces * y $ see around us .
We may observe here , that there are three things in connection wifh thjs subject which manifest the wisdom of the Creator ; these are the great variety of men ' s faces , voices and hand-writing . Had not the human countenance been the result of Divine wisdom , tlie
wise variety , of which we have been speaking , would never have existed but all faces would have been , cast ih the same , or at least hot in a very different , mould : the organs of speeq § would have sounded the same , or nearly so , and the same structure of muscles and nerves would have a . iven the
hand the same direction in writing . In this case , what confusion , what disturbance , to what mischiefs would the world have been subject ? 1 $ Q security could have been given to our persons ; no certainty , no quiet enjoyment of our possessions . Our cjoprts
of justice can and do abundantly testify frequently thedreaciful consequence of mistaking men ' s faces and of coudr terfeiting their hand-writing . But as the Creator has onjtjred the , matt ^ every man ' s face has some character tQ mart it from others in the light , an $ his voice in the dark , and his hand- ?
writing can speak for him though absent , and be his witness , andsecure his contracts to future generations , ^ u manifest as well as admirable indication of the Divine superin tendance ^ q 4 management ! ; , Of the complexion . The colour QV the skin ' has engaeed the attention , Of naturalists , and itnas ^ on ^ etin ^ es giv . W rise to opinions ^ tha . t were extrertieijjf , injurious to the I \ appines 3 of roanj ^ i ^ 4 i a , 8 ( direc % apser ^ i . p ^ , that , in yfotatipn of the eternal principles of justice aM the sacred rights q £ huwnH /^ cwft peqpl ^ of ojn e Pplp ^ f hm ^ I ^ SPLW * $ m ^ 4 P ^ l * WiM& PK ^ feS 5 t ^ ww % m > mi 9 f % m&r pBm < $ n 9 Y 0 fw ** & WWf ot ^ I ^ IISJ ^ iWn ^ ^ fSffift influence ita change ^ being lnowpj
Untitled Article
^ H ^ & ^< & % k ^ m /^ ^
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/14/
-