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 . and full muscles are the distinctive signs of aprovident person. When this characteristic is excessivelylarge, it is accompanied with protrusion of the lower partof the face. Providentness has its origin in strength, guided and regu-lated by a cool and cautious judgment, capable of restrainingand purifying passion and unbridled energy. The con-junction of wide hips with largely developed musclesdemonstrate the a
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 . and full muscles are the distinctive signs of aprovident person. When this characteristic is excessivelylarge, it is accompanied with protrusion of the lower partof the face. Providentness has its origin in strength, guided and regu-lated by a cool and cautious judgment, capable of restrainingand purifying passion and unbridled energy. The con-junction of wide hips with largely developed musclesdemonstrate the allied presence of strength and judgment— 162 THE FACULTIES, THEIR SIGNS AND PRINCIPLES. strength reposing in the muscles, and width of form bespeak-ing breadth of mind, as body and mind bear due proportionto each other. CONTEATIVENESS.—CONTEARINESS. THIS QUALITY, OR FACULTY, IN HUMAN BEINGS, IS THATWHICH GIVES THE DISPOSITION TO ASSUME THE OPPOSITE,AND IN ANIMALS, TO ACT CONTRARY TO THE WISHES OFINDIVIDUALS, EITHER MEN OR ANIMAL. The capacity of Contrativeness exhibits its indices bywidth through the face, at the angle of the jaius. Jt islarge in the hog and the Contrativeness very Large—Nai^oleon I. Copied from a cast takenfrom his head after death. Contrativeness occupies the same platform with that ofV^oluntativeness, with this difference, that the former is THE FACULTIES, THEIR SIGNS AND PRINCIPLES. 163 more moderate in action, and more considerate than isevinced in the exercise of pure wiU. POLYEROTICITY.—POLYGAMY. THE DISPOSITION TO LOVE MANY. The amount of love for the opposite sex may he hnovm bythe fulness of the eyes, and its quality hy the shape of thecommissures, or opening between the lids of the eyes. Whenthe opening is quite almond-shaped, promiscuous loveprevails in that form ; if the commissure has great verticalmeasurement, the love is connubial.
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