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lect. vi.] of character. 141
VII. Those of South-America vary from those
of the North.
All these people (not to notice their smaller
differences) are totally distinct from
VIII. The race of Europeans in these tempe-
rate latitudes.
It were endless to enumerate the variety of national
features in Europe alone, which yet are so strongly
marked, that any person, conversant with them, per-
ceives at once the natives of each country by that
cast of countenance proper to it. I shall only fur-
ther observe, that however dispersed among the na-
tions of the earth, the Jews are a people not re-
lated, or allied, to any of them, but continue pecu-
liar and distinct.
Beside national distinctions of feature, the nume-
rous Disorders to-which mankind are subject, are
considerable sources of Character. It is not difficult
to distinguish sickness, or indisposition, from health :
distempers, whether acute or chronical, generally
produce correspondent effects in the countenance.
Some persons from their birth are afflicted with dis-
orders, which, by preying on their constitutions,
induce melancholy, pam, peevishness ; their faces
are pale, wan, livid ; the airs of their countenances
dejected and despondent: more recent sufferings
subject others to similar tokens. Some diseases ex-
press themselves evidently ; such as the jaundice,
dropsy, &c. which we pass.
I wish here to remark, that Dress, though no
essential part of the person, is yet an essential part
of character : the features of a face cannot be
2 changed,
VII. Those of South-America vary from those
of the North.
All these people (not to notice their smaller
differences) are totally distinct from
VIII. The race of Europeans in these tempe-
rate latitudes.
It were endless to enumerate the variety of national
features in Europe alone, which yet are so strongly
marked, that any person, conversant with them, per-
ceives at once the natives of each country by that
cast of countenance proper to it. I shall only fur-
ther observe, that however dispersed among the na-
tions of the earth, the Jews are a people not re-
lated, or allied, to any of them, but continue pecu-
liar and distinct.
Beside national distinctions of feature, the nume-
rous Disorders to-which mankind are subject, are
considerable sources of Character. It is not difficult
to distinguish sickness, or indisposition, from health :
distempers, whether acute or chronical, generally
produce correspondent effects in the countenance.
Some persons from their birth are afflicted with dis-
orders, which, by preying on their constitutions,
induce melancholy, pam, peevishness ; their faces
are pale, wan, livid ; the airs of their countenances
dejected and despondent: more recent sufferings
subject others to similar tokens. Some diseases ex-
press themselves evidently ; such as the jaundice,
dropsy, &c. which we pass.
I wish here to remark, that Dress, though no
essential part of the person, is yet an essential part
of character : the features of a face cannot be
2 changed,