Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . Mentimitativeness Large—Elizabetli Canninc;. Mentimitativeness Small —Mary Squires, the gipsy. To estimate the capacity of power of sensation, we takethe width and size of the brain in its upper part as com-pared to the remaining facial development of the individual,and as it is impossible to imitate a thought unless we have THE FACULTIES, THEIR SIGNS AND PPJNCTPLES. 213 the powers of receiving a vivid impressio
Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . Mentimitativeness Large—Elizabetli Canninc;. Mentimitativeness Small —Mary Squires, the gipsy. To estimate the capacity of power of sensation, we takethe width and size of the brain in its upper part as com-pared to the remaining facial development of the individual,and as it is impossible to imitate a thought unless we have THE FACULTIES, THEIR SIGNS AND PPJNCTPLES. 213 the powers of receiving a vivid impression of it, those whohave a large development of the form indicated above,alone have the power in any great degree of imitatingthought. AFFABLENESS. COMPLACENCY OF DISPOSITION WITH THE NATURAL CONSE-QUENCES, INVITING MANNERS, WITH EASE AND ELEGANCEIN CONVERSATION. A long thin neck in manhind will ever testify as indi-cative of affability; while a short-necked person willcare little for grace or affability of AfFableness Small—Rulof,hung at Biiiifhamtoii formurder in 1871. Atfableness Lari!;e—Mrs. Josephine , a talented elocutionist of thecity of New York. Affability is a dc-^ire to be pleasing to others, with theview of producing in them a like state of feeling, aiid so 214 THE FACULTIES, THEIR SIGNS AND PRINCIPLES. contributing to the enjoyment of the first hy the reflexaction of his own affability. Self-sufficient and indepen-dent people have short necks as the outward sign of theirdeficiency in affability, and by reason of this they are notprone to Vowing or rendering themselves agreeable bydemonstration of this kind; while on the other, those ofan opposite disposition are furnished with longer necks,which naturally adapt them for obeisance and submissionin the presence of others. SALITIVENESS.—WIT. THE POWER OF SEIZING ON THOUGHTS AND OCCURRENCESAND PRESENTING THEM IN A LAUGHABLE MANNER, CHIEFLYDEPENDING ON QUICKNESS OF FANCY. True wit is nature to
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