Misterios de la fisiognomía

David Hume

Lord Charlemont said of Hume: ‘Nature, I believe, never formed any man more unlike his real character than David Hume … The powers of physiognomy were baffled by his countenance; neither could the most skilful in that science pretend to discover the smallest trace of the faculties of his mind in the unmeaning features of his visage. His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes vacant and spiritless, and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman than of a refined philosopher’ 

"Su cara era amplia y gorda, su boca ancha y sin otra expresión que la de la imbecilidad. Sus ojos vacíos y sin espíritu y la corpulencia de su persona eran mucho más apropiados para comunicar la idea de un concejal que comiera carne de tortuga que la de un refinado filósofo".

Esa, por lo visto, era la apariencia de uno de los hombres más inteligentes de su época.

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