New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . wer jaw near the alveolar pro-cess, and are inserted nito theinteo:ument of the chin. Thissign is very large in the ac-companying portrait of Wil-liam Gilmore Simms. Itcauses in some persons ashort transverse wrinkle be-tween the chin and lowerlip. The same muscles serveto protrude the lower lip andform the sign of the closelyallied quality of Contempt^of which we shall have moreto say when we come to speakof the mouth. Scorn is a kindof disdainful pri
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . wer jaw near the alveolar pro-cess, and are inserted nito theinteo:ument of the chin. Thissign is very large in the ac-companying portrait of Wil-liam Gilmore Simms. Itcauses in some persons ashort transverse wrinkle be-tween the chin and lowerlip. The same muscles serveto protrude the lower lip andform the sign of the closelyallied quality of Contempt^of which we shall have moreto say when we come to speakof the mouth. Scorn is a kindof disdainful pride and haugh-tiness, while Contempt ispride exhibited toward whatever we consider low, vulgar, orbeneath us. Both will be found associated with a large de-velopment of Self-Esteem, and generally with defi-cient Approbativeness andVeneration. They arehardly consistent withChristian humility, whichteaches us to unlearncontempt, and not toscorn kindred clay, sinceit has, like ours, Godsimage stamped upon it,and furnishes a temporaryhabitation for an immortalsoul. EOOJSOMY. chin, making, when large, what is Fig. 195.—William Gilmoee Fig. 196.—ScoKN. A fullness under the ;ONOMY. 161 called a double chin, as seen in this portrait of Franklin (fig,197), in which the author of Poor Uichard* lias his thumbon the precise point, is said to indicate the faculty of Economy,It increases with age, and people generally get more economi-cal as they grow old; but whether there is any necessary rela-tion between the double chin and a disposition to save or not,our observation has not yet enabled us to decide with anydegree of certainty; but this temperament, build, and form51 chin be fi-equently met with among economists of bothsexes, and especially among bankers.
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