New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Carlyle has summed this upin one pregnant sentence: *The eye sees what it bi-mgs thepower to see. How true is this! Tlie sailor on the look-outcan see a ship where the landsman sees nothing; the Esqui-maux can distinguish a white fox amid the white snow; theAmerican backwoodsman will fire a rilie-ball so as to strike anut out of the mouth of a squirrel w^ithout hurting it; the redIndiau boys hold their hands up as marks to each other, cer-tain that the
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Carlyle has summed this upin one pregnant sentence: *The eye sees what it bi-mgs thepower to see. How true is this! Tlie sailor on the look-outcan see a ship where the landsman sees nothing; the Esqui-maux can distinguish a white fox amid the white snow; theAmerican backwoodsman will fire a rilie-ball so as to strike anut out of the mouth of a squirrel w^ithout hurting it; the redIndiau boys hold their hands up as marks to each other, cer-tain that the unerring arrow will be shot between the spread-out fingers; the astronomer can see a star in the sky where toothers the blue expanse is unbroken; the shepherd can dis-tinguish the face of every sheep in his flock; the mosaic-worker can detect distinctions of color where others see none;and multitudes of additional examples might be given of whateducation does for tlie eye. EYES OF SOME CELEBRATED PERSONS. Cleopatras eyes were bold and black, with a slow, volup-tuous motion. Aspasias eyes must have been gray; so were 248 ABOUT THE EYES. Mary Stuarts. Catherine cle Medicis were black, but beau-tiful, notwithstanding their craftiness and cruelty; she had all the splendor of the eyes of Beatrice, theheavenly mistress of Dante,inclined upward. Miltonseyes must have been beauti-ful, for even in the bustswhich we see of him, andportraits taken after he be-came blind, we perceive thelid to be large and finely sep-arated from the brow, like toa well-proportioned door sUd-^=^Hi irig freely. THE EYEBROWS. ffli As the eyebrows are very^ closely connected with theFig. ^^^^ .^ action and expression, they may very properly be spoken of here. Eyebrows may be thick or thin, fine or coarse, smooth orbushy, arched or straight, regular or irregular; and each formand quality has its special significance in reference to temper-ament and character. Thick, strong eyebrows are
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