. The health guide : aiming at a higher science of life and the life-forces, giving nature's simple and beautiful laws of cure, the science of magnetic manipulation, bathing, electricity, food, sleep, exercise, marriage, and the treatment for one hundred diseases : thus, constituting a home doctor far superior to drugs. us so to live that our soulsshall stand forth radiantly when at last they enter the immortalstate of being where every eye shall see us as we are ! * 75. Physiognomy. General Laws. I ognomy teaches how to distinguish characUfeatures of the face, and laps over upon Phrenologyto
. The health guide : aiming at a higher science of life and the life-forces, giving nature's simple and beautiful laws of cure, the science of magnetic manipulation, bathing, electricity, food, sleep, exercise, marriage, and the treatment for one hundred diseases : thus, constituting a home doctor far superior to drugs. us so to live that our soulsshall stand forth radiantly when at last they enter the immortalstate of being where every eye shall see us as we are ! * 75. Physiognomy. General Laws. I ognomy teaches how to distinguish characUfeatures of the face, and laps over upon Phrenologyto some extent. Dr. Buchanan lays down the jciple, which French experimentalists have proved of, that a large intellectual or frontal develop-ment tends to project all the features forward ; a largecoronal development draws the features upward into * For a fuller idea of Psychometry, see Prof. Wm. Dentons three volumescalled The Soul of Things. PHYSIOGNOMY. 77 nobility of expression; a large back developmentdraws the features and forces back, while a large ba-silar development draws the features downward andgives a more stupid, inferior look when the counteract-ing elements above are small. The following cutswill illustrate some of the leading principles of thewhole science : Fig. 3. Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Fig. Well-balanced. Gross. Idiotic. Metaphysical, Fig. 3, from the prominent forehead, nose, and chin, de-notes intellectual power, and from the height of the head abovethe eyes, a good development of the moral and religions ele-ment. He also possesses a general balance of other qualities. Fig. 4, from his retreating forehead and chin, cannot be very-intellectual, but the prominence of his nose and perceptives issome sign of intellect. The lines of his -mouth and nose andchin are too much drawn down, and appetite, passion, and li-quor have doubtless had too much to do with him. Fig. 5 has a nose, forehead, and chin too retreating to havemuch sense, even if he tries. The dis
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