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knows at first view whether his fruits areripe: and if, as Aristotle says, huntsmenknow the good qualities of their dogs bytheir outward appearance and figure, whycannot physiognomists judge of the quali-ties of man by the union of particular fea-tures ? Physiognomy is a faithful mirrorwhich cannot deceive. Ope day a Germancombatted my system, ‘ It is not,’ said I,< the fault of nature, nor of my principles,if you do not perceive the result of myreasoning—do not imagine that the thingis not in existence, but say that you donot see it as I do, and I will assist you.

“ At Athens there lived formerly a great^ physiognomist, called Zopire*. The dis-ciples of Socrates to prove the abilities ofthis man, brought their master to him.Zopiie, after having closely examined his

“ Cum multa in eonventu vitia collegisset in eum“ Zopyrus, qui se naturam cujusque ex formA pets-“ picere profitebatur, derisus est a cceteris, qui ilia in“ Socrate vitia non agnoscerent: ab ipso autem“ Socrate sublevatus, cum ilia sibi signa, sed ratione,“ a dejecta diceret.” Cicero . '