New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 50i—Linnaeus. The Danish and Swedish. Fig. 503.—Frederioa Bremer. resemblance to the Norwegian, and in several respects are notunlike the Anglo-Saxon ; the chin, however, is less acuminated 398 NATIONAL TYPES. and the maxillary rami are shorter. The mean internal capac-ity of the skulls of this branch of the Teutonic race, measuredby Prof Morton, is 93. The Scandinavian differs from the German in being of amore active temperament and a more practi
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 50i—Linnaeus. The Danish and Swedish. Fig. 503.—Frederioa Bremer. resemblance to the Norwegian, and in several respects are notunlike the Anglo-Saxon ; the chin, however, is less acuminated 398 NATIONAL TYPES. and the maxillary rami are shorter. The mean internal capac-ity of the skulls of this branch of the Teutonic race, measuredby Prof Morton, is 93. The Scandinavian differs from the German in being of amore active temperament and a more practical turn of frame is larger and taller, his muscles more dense, his fea-tures more prominent, his perceptive faculties more fullydeveloped, and his Causality less prominent, though by nomeans deficient. He has quite as high a top-head as the Ger-man, and his grand mythology indicates the mystic sublimityof his ideas; and with all his practicality he has given usSwedenborg, the greatest and purest as well as the mostlearned and scientific of all the mystics. In war, Scandinaviaboasts her Charles XII. ; in natural science, her Linnaeus; in*iig, her Jenny Lind ; and in li
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