New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . 402 NATIONAL TYPES. In the proceedings of the British Ethnological Society wefind a paper giving the results of a series of observations madein England and Wales during thelast ten years by Mr. Mackintosh,together witli the remarks whichit drew forth from various mem-bers in reference to its generalsubject. We condense the moreimportant portions, and give en-gravings from the portraits usedby Mr. Mackintosh to illustrateliis remarks. The author of the
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . 402 NATIONAL TYPES. In the proceedings of the British Ethnological Society wefind a paper giving the results of a series of observations madein England and Wales during thelast ten years by Mr. Mackintosh,together witli the remarks whichit drew forth from various mem-bers in reference to its generalsubject. We condense the moreimportant portions, and give en-gravings from the portraits usedby Mr. Mackintosh to illustrateliis remarks. The author of the j^aper just re-ferred to uses the terms Gaelic,Cymbrian, Frisian, Jutian, Saxon,Norse, and Danish as a means ofconvenient classification, and not Fig. 509.—Gaelic Man. as dogmatically implying that these terms could now be safelycoupled with predominating types in various parts of Englandand Wales. No reasons have been assigned for believing that any of these races havebecome extinct; and whetherthere are any districts in Eng-land where they have had achance of persistence, must bedetermined by observation andinquiries relative to hereditarydescent such a
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