New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 8T1.—Diagram. Fig. 872.—Gorilla Skull. makes improvements. Compare a wigwam with a palace;the canoe with the steamship; the printing press of Frank-lins day with the lightning power presses of the present time;the electric telegraph with the flag signal. Man is a progress-ive being, and his works are a series of improvements. Theanimal is stationary, and his works are always the same. Inthe nest of the bird and the cell of the bee we see no im-pro
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 8T1.—Diagram. Fig. 872.—Gorilla Skull. makes improvements. Compare a wigwam with a palace;the canoe with the steamship; the printing press of Frank-lins day with the lightning power presses of the present time;the electric telegraph with the flag signal. Man is a progress-ive being, and his works are a series of improvements. Theanimal is stationary, and his works are always the same. Inthe nest of the bird and the cell of the bee we see no im-provement. In building nests or honey-combs, or diggingholes in the ground, the simple instincts are enough ; but whenit comes to inventing, building ships, factories, forts, castles,composing music, writing books, erecting telegraphs acrosscontinents and through lakes, rivers, and seas, it requires eea-BON, which is something more than instinct. It is throughthe organs in tlie second story of the human brain that these THE PHRENOLOGICAL VIEW 601 results are attained. Between the first and second lines arelocated the organs of Causality
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