Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . t is the practice to look,every man, on the things of his neighbor, with an eye to theirappropriation to his own use ;and we can well imagine whatsort of order and harmony mustprevail in a community that isregulated by such a principle asthis. Monkeys are actuated bythe feeling that what another hasis theirs; that stolen waters aresweet; that what is stolen is bet-ter than what is given to them —are always reaching their arms into their neighbors provinces, grabbing at each others food,pulling tails, kicking up a row, causing
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . t is the practice to look,every man, on the things of his neighbor, with an eye to theirappropriation to his own use ;and we can well imagine whatsort of order and harmony mustprevail in a community that isregulated by such a principle asthis. Monkeys are actuated bythe feeling that what another hasis theirs; that stolen waters aresweet; that what is stolen is bet-ter than what is given to them —are always reaching their arms into their neighbors provinces, grabbing at each others food,pulling tails, kicking up a row, causing hubbub and confusion, abusing and insulting eachother to the face, and rob-bing Peter to pay Paul inevery possible way they canthink of. This is all in thedisposition to similate man ;and if they will rob man ofhis distinctive attributes (forthis is humanity perverted),of course they will rob eachother. The second liability to per-version which constitutes aresemblance to the monkeyis that of the domestic affec-The ambition to seem, rather than to be, withdraws. « tions. 78 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. everything from within and expends it upon the surface in adeceptive appearance, which is worse than nothing at all. How little do they know what is, who frameTheir hasty judgment upon that which seems .* The mere shell-of-an-individual is hollow-hearted. Like aballoon he exalts himself on account of his greatness, andproves rather how vapid is his intellect, and how little thereis in him. Of sensibility and shame he has so small anamount, that they are hardly appreciable. To make room forpride and vanity, he deprives the domestic affections of theirhome, where alone they are capable of existing; he turnsthem out upon the surface, where they grow cold, die, and arepetrified into an appearance of reality. It is worse thannaught, for love without tenderness is inhuman. Its feeling,its consciousness, its susceptibility to pleasure and pain, whichis internal, is lost in brutality, or
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