New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . haracter withoutreference to this system; but let every one read, observe, andjudge for himself. We think with the author of an article upon the subject ofChirognomy, in the Anthropological Review for October,1865, that the hand as an iudex of racial peculiarities anddistinctions is worthy of special consideration, but that thoseenthusiasts and observers who profess to have found in thehand certain indices of individual character and derivation,even to
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . haracter withoutreference to this system; but let every one read, observe, andjudge for himself. We think with the author of an article upon the subject ofChirognomy, in the Anthropological Review for October,1865, that the hand as an iudex of racial peculiarities anddistinctions is worthy of special consideration, but that thoseenthusiasts and observers who profess to have found in thehand certain indices of individual character and derivation,even to minute particulars, go too far, and base their state-ments upon too narrow a basis for strict science. More factsare needed. We have not yet the data which would warranteven a plausible hypothesis. We should first settle the ques-tion of the racial hand, and mark the distinctive features ofthe Caucasian, the Mongolian, the Negro, etc., and then weshall be the better prepared to descend into the details of in-dividual specialty. XXXVI. EXERCISES IN EXPRESSION. * To trace each passions impress on the face—Each moods expression.— S transient expressions,frequently repeated,finally imprint them-selves in permanentlines upon the visage,they become not onlyinteresting subjects ofobservation, but important aidsto the physiognomist. If theexercise of mirthfulness wreathesFig. 935.—Terror. the lips with smiles and turns up the corners of the mouth, we have but to exercise it habitu-ally to give the mouth a half-smiling expression, even whenthe lips are at rest. In the same way sadness or gloom, ifnursed or indulged in, deepens day by day the lines whichcharacterize depression of spirits, till at last the smile itself,if it come at all, loses itself in the dominant expression ofsorrow. It is so with all other expressions of passion or deepfeeling. We have therefore, in even the most transitory work-ings of the features, trustworthy guides to a better knowledgeof the more en
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