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Excerpt from An Essay on the Truth of Physiognomy, and Its Application to Medicine
Physiocnomy, if considered In strict conformity to the derivation of the term, might be brie?y defined, The knowledge of nature for such is the literal meaning of the two Greek words, Which constitute its original. But cus tom immemorial, if it has not actually varied its true signification, has at least reduced it to a nar rower compass. It cannot, therefore, as at pre sent limited in its definition, be said to embrace the Whole, but only a part Of the knowledge of nature and that knowledge must be acquired in a particular way; namely, by an examination of the external forms and appearances of things. Physiognomy, then, taken in a general sense, ac cording to the customary acceptation d' the term, may be defined, a knowledge of the connection that exists between the external or visible ap pearances, and the internal or invisible qualities of the works of nature. It is, in other words, a knowledge of the contents of these Works, deri-f ved, exclusively, from an examination of their surfaces.
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