New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . VI. GENERAL FORMS, Tout dans la nature est rapport et harmonie, chaque apparance externe est le eignedune propriete : chaque point de la superflcie dune corps annonce Ietat de sa profon-deur et de sa De la Sarthe. In nature, all is connection and harmony. Each external appearance is the signof an inherent quality ; each point on the surface of a body indicates the condition ofthe internal parts of the Fig. IZS.—Menschikoff. N th
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . VI. GENERAL FORMS, Tout dans la nature est rapport et harmonie, chaque apparance externe est le eignedune propriete : chaque point de la superflcie dune corps annonce Ietat de sa profon-deur et de sa De la Sarthe. In nature, all is connection and harmony. Each external appearance is the signof an inherent quality ; each point on the surface of a body indicates the condition ofthe internal parts of the Fig. IZS.—Menschikoff. N the physiognomi-^ cal examination ofthe human face, thefirst thing to bedone is to observeits general alone containa synopsis, so tospeak, of the wholecharacter. The mi-nuter markings—the details of thefeatures — merelyelaborate the lead-ing ideas presentedin the skillful and ex-perienced physiog-nomist needs but to get the visage within the range of his eye to make himselfmaster of its secret at a glance. To him each man, woman,and child is labeled in big capitals, and he can determine the UK OBLONG FACE. 117 rank of eacli in the social scale as readily as you can tell ageneral from a captain by liis shoulder-straps. The reader avIio has studied and mastered the general j^rin-ciples laid down in Chapter III., and made himself ffimiliarwith our doctrine of the temperaments, as set fqith in ChapterIV., will be prepared to profit by the remarks which follow. FACES CLASSIFIED. The human body, as we have shown in Chapfer II., cons
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