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Excerpt from Essays on Physiognomy: For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind
There can be no doubt ofthetrnth of phyfiog homy. All countenances, all forms, all created beings, are not only difi'erent from each other in their claftes, taces, and kinds, but are alfo individu ally tlifiinét. Each being differs from every other being of its fpecies. However generally known, it is a truth the molt important to our purpofe, and nece?'ary to repeat, that there is no role perfeélly fimilar to another fofe, no egg to an egg, no ecl to an'eel', nolion to a lion, n-o eagle to an eagle.
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