New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . ing inAmerica ? When thefresh blood of Europeceases to be pouredinto our nationalveins, shall we dieout and leave the redman to resume pos-session of his nativedomains ? These aremerely different formsof the same greatphysiological and eth-nological question—a question which isnow forcing itselfupon public attentionand getting discussed with more or less intelligence (andgenerally less /), both in the newspapers and out of them. Inour opinion, those Eu
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . ing inAmerica ? When thefresh blood of Europeceases to be pouredinto our nationalveins, shall we dieout and leave the redman to resume pos-session of his nativedomains ? These aremerely different formsof the same greatphysiological and eth-nological question—a question which isnow forcing itselfupon public attentionand getting discussed with more or less intelligence (andgenerally less /), both in the newspapers and out of them. Inour opinion, those European cousins of ours who discuss thesequestions so flippantly and doom us to extinction with suchphilosophic nonchalance, know very little of the subject theyare talking about. History contradicts and will in the endutterly refute them. But while wa do not believe that the white man is goingto die out here, or even become merged in the red or tlie black,there are certain physiological facts in reference to the Cau-casian race in America Avhicli no intelligent observer canignore, and which we do not desire to conceal, as tlicy have 18. Fig. 519,—Pbesidknt Lincoln. 410 NATIONAL TYPES. important practical bearings. In the first place, there is ob-servable in us a decrease of the cellular tissues and a shrink-ing of the muscles, causing us to exhibit less plumpness ofbody than the European stocks from which we are seems to thrive with us better than muscle. But whatflesh we have is dense, tough, and wiry ; and because we
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