New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . 4:76 NATIONAL TYPES. a fine development of the intellectual and moral powers con-joined with great j)hysical strength and a fierce energy of char-acter which would have done no discredit to an ancient is evidently a type of skull difiering considerably fromthat of the tropical Polynesians, but whether this differenceis owing merely to a difference in climate and other geograph-. Fig. 601.—MxTfi OF North Australia. ical conditions or to a mix
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . 4:76 NATIONAL TYPES. a fine development of the intellectual and moral powers con-joined with great j)hysical strength and a fierce energy of char-acter which would have done no discredit to an ancient is evidently a type of skull difiering considerably fromthat of the tropical Polynesians, but whether this differenceis owing merely to a difference in climate and other geograph-. Fig. 601.—MxTfi OF North Australia. ical conditions or to a mixture of blood, we are not at to determine. Of the Solomon islanders, of one of whom fig. 600 is a rep-resentation, we have no reliable description. Our sketch sug-gests an approach to the Australian type, to which it mayserve as a transition. THE AUSTRALIANS, In the native Australian we have an exceedingly low and THE AUSTRALIANS. 477 degraded type of humanity. Fig. 603, from a cranium in theMortonian collection, seems scarcely human. The skull isthat of a native of Port St. Philip, New South Wales. Thisskull, Dr. Morton says, is the nearest approach to the orangtype that I have seen. It is, adds Dr. Meigs, a trulyanimal head. The forehead is exceedingly flat and recedent,
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