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Excerpt from Essays on Physiognomy, Vol. 2: Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind
The happiest dispositions are frequently conceaied under the most disgusting outside. (we shall explain afterwards why this must hap pen.) A vulgar inexperienced eye perceives nothing but ruin and desolation; it sees not that education, and other circumstances, have placed an obstacle in the way of every effort that tended to ward perfection. The Physionomist observes, examines, and sus pends his judgement. He hears a thousand voices crying out, See what a man -but, in the midst of the uproar, he distinguishes another voice, a voice from heaven, saying to him also, See what a man - He finds cause for adoration where others blaspheme, be cause they cannot Or will not comprehend, that the very figure from which they turn away with abhorrence, presents traces of the power, the wisdom, and the goodness of the great Creator.
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