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 . Rectituditiveness Small—Jolm Tetzel, Eectituditiveness Large — the dishonest face. Andrew Jackson, the honest face. THE FACULTIES, THEIR SIGNS AND PRINCIPLES. 195 Square and prominent bones conjoined to eyes that cutdirectly across the vertical line of the face, are distinctivemarks of Reetituditiveness; and this is the case in virtueof the character of the structure; because, wherever thesquare-boned form predo
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 . Rectituditiveness Small—Jolm Tetzel, Eectituditiveness Large — the dishonest face. Andrew Jackson, the honest face. THE FACULTIES, THEIR SIGNS AND PRINCIPLES. 195 Square and prominent bones conjoined to eyes that cutdirectly across the vertical line of the face, are distinctivemarks of Reetituditiveness; and this is the case in virtueof the character of the structure; because, wherever thesquare-boned form predominates, the individual is com-. Eectituditiveness Small — LizzieSmith, a notorious pickpocketof the city of New York. Eectitnditiveness Large—WilliamTyndale, a translator of theBible, and martyr for the same. pelled, by a natural law, to act in accordance with hisstructure, and go straight and clear at his object. Hecannot airive at anything by devious or crooked ways, a mode of action entirely foreign to his nature, andhis bones being on the straicjht-anoled ])]an, he must actin accordance. Rectitude is derived from the Latin, rectus,straight, and rectitude is therefore the capacity of goingstraight, and according to the recognized and open methodsin common usage in whatever state of society the individualmay be placed. 196 THE FACULTIES, THEIR SIGNS AND PRINCIPLES. I, COMPUTATIONUMERICALITY.—NUMEEICALCOMPUTATION. SKILL IN COUNTING AND RECKONING. Whenever we observe the outward extremities of the eye-brows running towards the top of the ears, or horizontallybackwards, it is a sure sign of a quick,
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