Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . allured rectitude, with its intrepid air, never avoidsing infpeclion or fhrinking from the view ! Felicitcus is the filia-tion of the perfon who has difcovered it) if he facriSce ail his pofyfeffions, it is incumbent on him to become the purchaier of a U£a»fure fo valuable. ADDITION. SEE THE PROFILE OF A FAMOUS OBJECT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. It is the profile of a famous object of criminal juftice, whichI now offer to the view; it is afferted, that he carried difrfimularion to its greater! height : that this imita
Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind . allured rectitude, with its intrepid air, never avoidsing infpeclion or fhrinking from the view ! Felicitcus is the filia-tion of the perfon who has difcovered it) if he facriSce ail his pofyfeffions, it is incumbent on him to become the purchaier of a U£a»fure fo valuable. ADDITION. SEE THE PROFILE OF A FAMOUS OBJECT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. It is the profile of a famous object of criminal juftice, whichI now offer to the view; it is afferted, that he carried difrfimularion to its greater! height : that this imitation is too vaguelytaken, to allow of my infuring the refemblance, is a facl ; however,•to confider it as it really is, that eye in other particulars (o praife-worthy, united with that mouth, and that fhert nofe, carrying anappearance of timidity, muff, always excite doubts of hypocrify :it is very doubtful with me, if any perfen would pretend to difco-ver inthjs profile, the itamp cf that bewitching liberality by whichthe heart is impelled and penetrated, LECTURE Bw2 A famous object of criminal Juftice . 71 LECTURE IV. ON HUMAN LIBERTY AN1> ITS BOUNDARIES. THE freedom of the Bird in the Cage, is an exacl: emblem ofhuman liberty ; this is my fentiment on this fubjecl, fo poflefics his circle of activity and feeling, and that delcribedboundary it is impomble for him to furmount, in the fame manneras our bodies have lines by which they are circumicribed, fo ourminds have their particular boundaries in which to aft; but thatboundary is imperfcriptibly fixed. One of thofe never to be forgiven enormities, by which Helve-tius has offended both underftanding and experience, is the af-fcrtion, in which he attributes to education, iblely the power offorming and correcting the difpofitions of humanity : in this periodof philoiophical enlargement, no fentence of greater incongruityhas perhaps been advanced. What perfon will doubt, that withparticular heads, p
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