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 . ed, the more free fromdioss it becomes; the more men have touched the antipodesof sorrowing sympathy, or repellant hatred, the less worth-less material they contain. Fleshy, round, smooth faces, aresignificant of ease-loving and inactive minds. An old adageamong the ancients was, that a lean and wrinkled faceevinced great is true to a great ex-tent, that all originalmen of great mentallabour have carri
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 . ed, the more free fromdioss it becomes; the more men have touched the antipodesof sorrowing sympathy, or repellant hatred, the less worth-less material they contain. Fleshy, round, smooth faces, aresignificant of ease-loving and inactive minds. An old adageamong the ancients was, that a lean and wrinkled faceevinced great is true to a great ex-tent, that all originalmen of great mentallabour have carried facesrather spare and think gives an— to storm withthought requires greataction; the great emotionswings the facial musclesone against another, pro-ducing deep wrinkles;and years of wonderfulap])lication and mentaleffort leave deep indent-ations and well-definedmarks on the Physiog-nomy of man; as activewaters of former yearshave left their deep gullies on the Physiognomy of call these wrinkles on mankind beautiful,as they are recorded evidences of a life of industry andvirtue. In looking over six hundred photographs of nott?d rogues. Lucius AnriEeus Seneca, a celebrated Ro-man philosopher, with well-defined liaes>indicative of years of consecutive mentalindustry. THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRY ON THE HUMAN FACE. 459 in the rogues gallery in San Francisco, I observed thatthey were nearly all wrinkleless, and of round, full, expres-sionless faces. This peculiarity of features would scientifi-cally testify to an utter, or nearly an entire absence ofcharacter. As it takes much character to make a manthoroughly honest, so they have too little to give linesof honesty. People who live industrious lives are usually most moral,and out of a knowledge of this fact sprang the truthfulsaying, that idleness is Satans workshop. When visiting the penitentiaries of various States, thatfact has been made apparent by the records of those severalplaces of
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