[Aristotle's works.].

  • Aristotle, pseud.
Date:
[1890?]
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Credit: [Aristotle's works.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    twixt a man and a woman; the reason is, be- cause in respect of the whole composition, men more fully comprehend it than women do, as may evidently appear by the manner and method we shall give. Wherefore the judgments which we shall pass in every chapter do properly concern a man, as comprehending the whole species, and but improperly the woman, as be- ing but a part thereof, and derived from the man; and therefore, whoever is called to give judgment on such a face, ought to be wary about all the lines and marks that belong to it, respect being also had to the sex; for when wre behold a man whose face is like unto a woman’s, and we pass a judgment upon it, having diligently observed it, and not on the face only, but on other parts of the body, as hands, etc., in like manner wo also behold the face of a woman, who in respect to her flesh and blood is like unto a man, and in the dis- Eosure also of the greatest part of the body. lut does physiognomy give the same judgment on her, as it does of a man that is like unto her? By no means, but far otherwise, in re- gard that the conception of the woman is much different from that of a man, even in those respects which are said to be common. Now in those common respects two parts are attributed to a man, and a third part to a woman. Wherefore it being our intention to give you an exact account, according to the rule of phy- siognomy of all and every part of the mem- bers of the body, we will begin with the head,