New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . s or races might be extended indefinitely. Each nationhas its peculiar, characteristic nose, though we do not claimto be able, at present, to point out and define them all. To dothis would require still more extensive and careful observa,tion, which we hope yet to make. We offer the following re-marks as mere hints toward a system of ethnological nasology. THE AMERICAN NOSE. It can hardly be expected that, in a nation made up of somany and diverse elem
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . s or races might be extended indefinitely. Each nationhas its peculiar, characteristic nose, though we do not claimto be able, at present, to point out and define them all. To dothis would require still more extensive and careful observa,tion, which we hope yet to make. We offer the following re-marks as mere hints toward a system of ethnological nasology. THE AMERICAN NOSE. It can hardly be expected that, in a nation made up of somany and diverse elements as ours, there should yethave been developed any very distinct national cast of may ob-serve, in gene-ral terms, how-ever, that ournational feat-ures are sharpand prominent, ^s- ^^^compared with theAnglo-Saxon and Teu-tonic races of Europefrom whom we aremost largely the profile of ournoses such forms as rep-resented in figs. 304 and Fig. Alexander Clarke. 395^ .^j,^^ especially the first named, are more common than any others. A nearerapproach to the Roman type, as shown in fig. 306, and in tho.
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