Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . -riety and phrases of feeling! all being included in one con-suming, absorbing emotion, self-love ! Too great a degree of this affection eats a man up. Itmakes a beggar of him; it takes the starch out of his ears,robs him of his cleanliness, together with his dressy appear- 184 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. ance, and clothes him with rags and tatters. The moreclothing he has on the more poor and miserable he looks;and as it is the same with the hog, the dressing of this animalconsists in scraping away the clothing he has on, as a g
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . -riety and phrases of feeling! all being included in one con-suming, absorbing emotion, self-love ! Too great a degree of this affection eats a man up. Itmakes a beggar of him; it takes the starch out of his ears,robs him of his cleanliness, together with his dressy appear- 184 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. ance, and clothes him with rags and tatters. The moreclothing he has on the more poor and miserable he looks;and as it is the same with the hog, the dressing of this animalconsists in scraping away the clothing he has on, as a gar-dener scrapes away dirt. For the illustration of these obser-vations, compare the preceding hog with the one following. What a fall is that, my couutrymen !—and this in conse-quence of supreme selfishness, when the means for gratifyingit and for being made happy and good-natured, are takenaway! He calls for help still; he is dependent on is so with the person who resembles him. As the meansof subsistence are gone from his head, he holds out his hat. to receive them at second hand ; and he holds a staff in hishand to pick his way with, showing what dry picking thegutters afford him, and to signify how little supper he has tolean upon. His staff is an emblem of the staff of life,which is the special object of his pursuit, and it impressesthe mind with the idea that he is a pilgrim and a stranger, THE HOG. 185 and is looking for something that he cant find. A well-dis-posed, benevolent individual would suppose that it was a city out of sight, but it is merely what the coming hog islooking for and cant see till he has hit it with his nose, wheninstantly he seizes upon it with all the interest of a new dis-covery. It may not be amiss to inquire why a person who is su-premely selfish should be in so destitute and miserable acondition. It is simply this: his desire for everything, hisgreediness to eat all the world up, deprives him of taste anddiscrimination. This accou
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