Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 79
to palmhimself off for a god. It is Dr. Adam Clarke (is it not?) whosupposes that the temptation of our first parents (that by eat-ing the forbidden fruit they should be as gods, knowing goodand evil) was suggested by an orang-outang; but now-a-daysthe creature operates as a preventive to such a… … Dressed in a little brief authority,Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven,As make the angels weep—who witli our spleensWould all themselves laugh mortal. Human beings are pleased with a reflection of themselvesin a glass, in the minds of others (particularly when they can have their…
Physiognomy
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