New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 104.—Infancy. THE LAW OF LATENCY. 93 mant faculties. Just what their final d3velopment will be,however, depends largely upon education and other externalinfluences. In some persons the features, and especially the nose andchin, retain through life their infantile form. These are casesof either absolute and congenital imbecility or of arrested de-velopment, which are not uncommon among the lowest andmost ignorant classes. Old age, the second childh
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 104.—Infancy. THE LAW OF LATENCY. 93 mant faculties. Just what their final d3velopment will be,however, depends largely upon education and other externalinfluences. In some persons the features, and especially the nose andchin, retain through life their infantile form. These are casesof either absolute and congenital imbecility or of arrested de-velopment, which are not uncommon among the lowest andmost ignorant classes. Old age, the second childhood, differs from infancy in respectto some of the faculties not actively manifested, and the signsof which are not wholly legible; but the same principle ap-plies to both cases. In the foregoing well-established general principles we havea sufficient foundation for a science of physiognomy. If thesuperstructure be still far from perfect it is at least well based,and requires but time and labor to giv^ it harmony, consist-ency, and IV. THE TEMPERAMENTS Made him of well-attempered clay, As such high destiny befitted, And bade him rule. Marvel.
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