New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . ll see further on, largely concerned in ex-pression. THE NOSE AS A SIGN OF DEVELOPMENT. Taking a more strictly physiognomical view of the nose, wewill first consider it as a sign and measure of Avill be seen that its various contours mark every stage ofhuman progress, whether in individuals or in a race. The baby-nose is a dimnnitive pug—the nose of weakness andundevelopment; and it prop-erly retains its inward curvetill the age of puber
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . ll see further on, largely concerned in ex-pression. THE NOSE AS A SIGN OF DEVELOPMENT. Taking a more strictly physiognomical view of the nose, wewill first consider it as a sign and measure of Avill be seen that its various contours mark every stage ofhuman progress, whether in individuals or in a race. The baby-nose is a dimnnitive pug—the nose of weakness andundevelopment; and it prop-erly retains its inward curvetill the age of puberty, whenthe interior force of the newlife, which at that epochexpands the whole phys-ical system, pushes thenasal bone outward anddownward, and the or-gan assumes its morepermanent form, in ac-Fig. Mongolian. cordancc with the men- ^^^ tal status of the individual and of the race to whicli he be-longs. A straight or an aquiline nose, projecting from therounded cheeks of a little chihl, is an absolute deformity, be-tokening a most unhealthy precociousness of mind and , examples of this abnormal development are. 188 ABOUT NOSES. not rare, especially in this country, where the forcing systemof education is so much in vogue, and parents are so anxiousthat their children shall appear clever, or, in our dialect, smart. Noses which fail properly to assert themselves, on their en-trance into a mans or a womans estate, afford examples ofarrested development^ which, we are sorry to say, are as common as ignorance and sin, even in our most cultivated com-munities. Here, side by side, are two outlined profiles — portraits, wewill suppose, of two Irish girls — the one (fig. 255), thedaughter of a noble house, whose ancestors have been, fromtime immemorial, lords of the soil, and who inherits the men-tal and physical re-sults of ten genera-tions of culture andrefinement; the oth-er (fig. 254), the off-spring of some low / -i^ W\N bog trotter, whosesole birth-
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