New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . e—the predominan^^.e of the moral and imaginative over the in-tellectual nature—and manifests this more especially in themagnificent development of his Veneration. Hence his wholelife is a series of religious acts, and the gods and their serviceare never absent from his mind. His rivers are sacred, hismountains are holy, his heroes are incarnations, and his sagesare prophets. To his reverential gaze the divinity of natureis revealed, not as a myth but
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . e—the predominan^^.e of the moral and imaginative over the in-tellectual nature—and manifests this more especially in themagnificent development of his Veneration. Hence his wholelife is a series of religious acts, and the gods and their serviceare never absent from his mind. His rivers are sacred, hismountains are holy, his heroes are incarnations, and his sagesare prophets. To his reverential gaze the divinity of natureis revealed, not as a myth but as a realitv. * * * Thuspersons, places,things, and institu-tions are alike theobjects of his rev-erence. The fact that onehundred thousandBritons hold in sub-jection one hun-dred millions ofHindoos would,without the lightthrown upon thesubject by Phre-nology, be entirelyunaccountable; butwhen we considerthat size — otherthings being equal—is the measure ofpower, and that theEnglish head is Fig. Sahib. nearly a third larger than the Hindoo, the case seems lessastonishing. The difference in size, however, is not the only. THE SIOUX INDIANS. 451 or even the greatest diiference to be taken into account Hindoo head is narrow at the base, indicaiinu: deficientDestructiveness and Combativeness, and lie lacks ,force of character, and energy ; while the head of the Britunis broad at the base, and he is full of executi\ e power anddestructive vigor. Phrenology therefore makes it plain Avhya handful of the latter dominate so easily over the multitudesof the latter. The fierce Nena Sahib* (fig. 564) and other in-dividuals of similar character, who wxn-e nominally Hindoo,had other blood in their veins and broader bases to theirskulls. Fig. 565 represents an individual in whom all theweakness and efieminacy of the true Hindoo is combined withall the grossness and animality of a lower and more sensual and vanity are his leading traits of
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