New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . nose to Jupiter, Hercules,Minerva Bellatrix, and other energetic deities. Itloves power and dominion; seeks personal aggran-dizement ; and pushes onward toward its object witha terrible energy, a stern determination, and an utterdisregard of the little courtesies of life. From JuliusCiesar to Lord Wellington, the character of the Ro- rig. arbiters of human destiny has been in these respectsthe same. For proof of this, consult the biograph
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . nose to Jupiter, Hercules,Minerva Bellatrix, and other energetic deities. Itloves power and dominion; seeks personal aggran-dizement ; and pushes onward toward its object witha terrible energy, a stern determination, and an utterdisregard of the little courtesies of life. From JuliusCiesar to Lord Wellington, the character of the Ro- rig. arbiters of human destiny has been in these respectsthe same. For proof of this, consult the biographies of Sesos-tris, Cato the Censor, Lucretius, Charlemagne, Charles V. ofSpain, Canute, Columbus, Americus Vespucius, Cortes, Pizarro, Robert Bruce, Queen Elizabeth,the Earl of Chatham, HendrickHudson, Daniel Boone, GeneralDaniel Morgan, Francis Marion,Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston,Thomas H. Benton, Winfield Scott,and Zachary Taylor (and we mightmention twenty more), all of whomhad either strictly Roman noses,^or noses closely approaching thattype. These were persons, thouglinot all conquerors on the field ofwar, whom no hardship could de-. Fig. 262.—LUCEKTIUS. THE GREEK NOSE —REFINEMENT, 193 ter, no fear daunt, no affection turn aside from any purposethey had undertaken—that purpose being, in most cases, pur-sued with a reckless disregard of personal ease and the wel-fare of others. Numerous portraits, both in marble and on coins, demon-strate that the nose we are considering was very properlynamed from the ancient conquerors of the world, among whomit was a peculiarly characteristic feature, and who manifestedin a most remarkable degree the traits of character which itindicates. Noses of the pure Caesarian type, in its complete develop-ment, are rare at the present day; but thosewhich closely approach it, and which we shall call Roman,since they are of the same general form, are not uncommonamong Europeans and Americans. The departure from theclassical outl
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