New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . hakspeakb. In many ways does the full heart revealThe presence of the love it would conceal.—Coleridge. UR happiness or mis-ery in this world de-pends largely uponthe state of our affec-^^ tions. To love andto be loved is thenormal condition and destinyof every well-constituted manand Avoman. Failing to at-tain this condition, our mindsare apt to become more orless morbid or warped, andwe generally either run into Fig. 775.—Isabella of Castile. dans^er
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . hakspeakb. In many ways does the full heart revealThe presence of the love it would conceal.—Coleridge. UR happiness or mis-ery in this world de-pends largely uponthe state of our affec-^^ tions. To love andto be loved is thenormal condition and destinyof every well-constituted manand Avoman. Failing to at-tain this condition, our mindsare apt to become more orless morbid or warped, andwe generally either run into Fig. 775.—Isabella of Castile. dans^erOUS and sinful CXCeSSCS of some kind, or, the milk of human kindness getting souredin our breasts, we become unsocial and cynical, if not At best, our earthly lives are to a greater or lessextent irretrievably marred. A fcAv individuals may be found who are comparatively in-different to love. A few others, in whom its manifestation isnot naturally wanting, are able, when its object fails them, tosubstitute ambition or some other sentiment or passion for it;or to hold the whole lower nature in such absolute subjection. LOVE SIGNS. 563 to the spiritual faculties, that the ordinances of religion andthe duties of Christian charity stand with them in the placeof wife or husband, family and home ; but these cases con-stitute the apparent exceptions which prove the rule. While all men and women, not mentally or physically defi-cient to the extent of deformity or partial idiocy, may be saidto be born to love and be beloved, there are wide diifer-ences in the dcGrree and form in which love manifests itself;and in seeking its fruition in marriage, it is of the highest im-portance that these differences be taken into account and har-monized. Much—everything almost—depends upon adapta-tion. We often see couples united in marriage where bothparties are amiable and, in some degree, affectionate, who,nevertheless only make each other miserable. Each is capa-ble of lov
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