Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . fe ofother nations, becaufe mothers accuftom their infants to fleep on thefide and temples, wrapt up in fvvadling clothes. I allow that forced preffures and may have an influ-ence on the form of the head, and coniequently on the intelligenceand capacity of the child ; but on the other hand, I likewife be-lieve, that the violent preflure, which is unavoidable even in thecafieil labours, does no real injury to the principal form. The na-tural elailicity of the parts repairs every thing, and reftores th
Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . fe ofother nations, becaufe mothers accuftom their infants to fleep on thefide and temples, wrapt up in fvvadling clothes. I allow that forced preffures and may have an influ-ence on the form of the head, and coniequently on the intelligenceand capacity of the child ; but on the other hand, I likewife be-lieve, that the violent preflure, which is unavoidable even in thecafieil labours, does no real injury to the principal form. The na-tural elailicity of the parts repairs every thing, and reftores theorder of the whole. What has not the noie to undergo in thebirth, a fubitance ftill io foft ? Its elaiticitv, however, is fufHcientto re-eitablifh it. May it not be concluded from thence, that if fo delicate can recover from the compremons which i: un-dergoes—much greater efforts mult be neceiTary irrecoverably to de-range the jfolidity and elaiticity of the fcull. The fame thing may-re did refpedling the fails and blows to which mcit children are liable. Fagejjft. lavatsrs physiognomy. 153 liable, without any injury to the brain or the form of the mud be admitted, however, that rlupidity in children is oftenthe effect of the unmerciful chaftifements which parents and fchool-mafters fo abfardly employ. Our author remarks clfewhere, thofe forms of the head calledrion- natural are fometimes found to belong to perfons of faperiorwifdom ; for the brain needs no certain and appropriated figure ;though fuch fculls, and efpecially in the appearance of the futures,different from the natural, feldorn prefent themfelves to obferva-tion in our church-yards, as would perhaps now and then be thecafe, were we to examine the of the inhabitants ofthe Alps on the fide next to Italy, as we are allured thefe peoplehave not only thofe deformities of the head which have been al-ready mentioned,, but others fliil more widely different from the na»jural figu
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