New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . withwhich to compare it. THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN. Their own monuments show that the builders of the pyra-mids were a mixed race, in which the Semitic element largelypredominated. Prof Morton distinguishes three distinct formsor varieties of Egyptian heads, exclusive of the negroid types—the Egyptian proper, the Pelasgic, and the Semitic. TheEgyptian form, he says, differs from the Pelasgic in hav-ing a narrow and more receding forehead, while, the facebei
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . withwhich to compare it. THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN. Their own monuments show that the builders of the pyra-mids were a mixed race, in which the Semitic element largelypredominated. Prof Morton distinguishes three distinct formsor varieties of Egyptian heads, exclusive of the negroid types—the Egyptian proper, the Pelasgic, and the Semitic. TheEgyptian form, he says, differs from the Pelasgic in hav-ing a narrow and more receding forehead, while, the facebeing more prominent, the facial angle is consequently nose is straight or aquiline, the face angular, the featuresoften sharp, and the hair uniformly long, soft, and curling. * It has been claimed that the complexion and hair of the Jew vary ac-cording^ to climate, beini^ blonde and light in the- northern countries anddark in the southern ; but later rosearches show that the two types aboveff^scribed are found under all climates. Climate modifies individuals andnations, but ethnological types are pennanent. 448 NATIONAL * * * * rpijQ Q-^i ^fjg 558^ illustrates a remarkable head,which may serve as a type of the genume Egyptian confor-mation. The long oval cranium, the recedmg [we should call it comparatively prominent] fore-head, the gently aquiline nose, andthe retracted chin, together withthe marked distance between thenose and the mouth, and the long,smooth hair are all characteristicof the monumental Egyptian. THE 558.—Egyptian Head. It sccms probable that the an- cient Phoenicians were a branch of the Semitic family, thoughthey apparently approximated the European character andconfiguration. In them the commercial and manufacturingspirit predominated. They were the adventurous mariners ofTyre and Sidon, and the merchant princes of Carthage, andformed the connecting link, as it were, between the Orientaland the Occidentaltypes. Our illust
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