The laughable stories collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar Hebræ

184 THE LAUGHABLE STORIES OF BAR-HEBR^US.
"acteth upon the other, and each is acted upon by his
"fellow. The soul is acted upon by the body in sea-
"sons of anger, and love, and sadness, and because the
"body is the revealer of our senses, the soul concealeth
"by means of the body the motion whereby we came
"to know this. And this is the science of physiognomy,
"and the signs which it possesseth are threefold.
"For either by the resemblance which we see between
"some human and some animal form do we identify
"the motions of the person from the motions of the
"animal; or by the likeness which we see between a
"certain human being and a certain being among the
"various human races—as we might say the Ethiopians,
"or the Huns, or the Hittites—and when we compare
"the habits of the person with those of [one belonging
"to] these nations we cannot make a mistake; or the
"form of some person whom we see being like unto
"the form of him that is angry, or him that is afraid,
"or him that lusteth; therefore he who is naturally a
"man of wrath, or a timid man, or a man of lust we
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