PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOGNOMY [Top, from left] the head of Thomas C. Haliburton, the humorous writer from Nova Scotia, in whom the sign of 'Merriness' was 'large', Charles I, King of England, a man who exhibits 'small merriness' (he is said never to have laughed after he came to the throne), and Mark Twain, the American humorist, who had 'large salitiveness'. [Bottom, from left], the head of Voltaire, a man 'who had no respect for God or man, and who tried to destroy all religious faith', had 'small credulousness'. ... The Russian Emperor, Peter the Great (as a young man) who had 'small aquas
PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOGNOMY [Top, from left] the head of Thomas C. Haliburton, the humorous writer from Nova Scotia, in whom the sign of 'Merriness' was 'large', Charles I, King of England, a man who exhibits 'small merriness' (he is said never to have laughed after he came to the throne), and Mark Twain, the American humorist, who had 'large salitiveness'. [Bottom, from left], the head of Voltaire, a man 'who had no respect for God or man, and who tried to destroy all religious faith', had 'small credulousness'. ... The Russian Emperor, Peter the Great (as a young man) who had 'small aquasorbitiveness', and the Polish astronomer, Nicholas Copernicus, who also had 'small aquasorbitiveness', and who drank only sparingly of water. From J. Simms, An Original and Illustrated Physiological and Physiognomical Chart, 1888 edn (first printed 1873).
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