Comparative Physiognomy Or Resemblances Between Men And Animals
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Houses in Turkey, that make a grand show of windows at a distance, are found on approach to be bricked up in the places where light was supposed to be admitted. It is from this disposition in the Turk to make a show of glass without the reality, that makes his eye itself a sort of blind Digitized by VjOOQ IC THE TUEKEY. 147 window. Certainly he is inclined to receive implicitly what Mohammed has told him, and to be as thoroughly hoodwinked as this hawk is that he holds on' his arm, and about wh...ich he seems to be pronouncing a discourse. But his eyes are held a while in order that he may see more clearly, and may use them to better advantage : external light and external objects are shut out, that he may have the light of truth, and may exercise his reason. When this shall be, he will bear a resemblance to birds of powerful wing, as the hawk and the eagle. The gradations from the turkey to the eagle are miserable, hard, and difficult. First, he will resemble the tur- key-buzzard — then the stork — then the vulture — then the ea- gle.
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