Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . His countenance THE ELEPHANT. 51 is all dripping, and seems to invite a torrent of water to bepoured over it. His whole body is like a sea, with its ebband flow, and moving forward with a slow current to its out-let, where the mighty force of descent invites to the demon-stration of the principle that knowledge is power. He isthe wisest of the brute creation, for physical force should begoverned by intellectual, to which it corresponds. He rep-resents all things mighty — the water-power, the ponderouswheel, and the whole machi
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . His countenance THE ELEPHANT. 51 is all dripping, and seems to invite a torrent of water to bepoured over it. His whole body is like a sea, with its ebband flow, and moving forward with a slow current to its out-let, where the mighty force of descent invites to the demon-stration of the principle that knowledge is power. He isthe wisest of the brute creation, for physical force should begoverned by intellectual, to which it corresponds. He rep-resents all things mighty — the water-power, the ponderouswheel, and the whole machinery through which power over-comes a resistance equal to itself in the production of themost wonderful results. As there is in the rhinoceros that wmich involves the prin-ciples of mathematics, so there is in the elephant that whichinvolves the principles of mechanics ; and as Nature illus-trates these principles in the animal economy of both, so Art,in those who resemble the rhinoceros and the elephant, ap-plies them to the demonstration of the laws which gov
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