43 Below is an excerpt from “The Physiognomist's Own Book”: an introduction to physiognomy drawn from the writings of Lavater, 1841. Read the text. Study the vocabulary and grammar for further exercises and discussions.
…Most persons are daily in the practice of this art, without a knowledge of the principles upon which it is founded. A man's face displeases them: this is often a sufficient ground for aversion. Prejudices of this nature ought to be exploded, and it should be the man of science and real humanity to remove them. Such was the great design of Lavater, whose profound research, guided by the design of being useful to his species, displayed to him the nature of man, and taught him how far the moral character is capable of being traced upon the face.
