New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 193.—Wellingtoit. Fig. 194.—Cast ot Franklins Face. SCOEN^ AND CONTEMPT, The signs we have mentioned are all situated on the boneof the chin and lower jaw. There are two or three connectedwith tlie muscles which may now be mentioned. ScG7n is indicated by the drawing of the chin upward, as 160 THE CHIN. shown in fig. 195, which depends upon the action of two smallmuscles {levatores menti^ fig. 165, p. 145) which, as shown inChapter VIIL, arise fro
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 193.—Wellingtoit. Fig. 194.—Cast ot Franklins Face. SCOEN^ AND CONTEMPT, The signs we have mentioned are all situated on the boneof the chin and lower jaw. There are two or three connectedwith tlie muscles which may now be mentioned. ScG7n is indicated by the drawing of the chin upward, as 160 THE CHIN. shown in fig. 195, which depends upon the action of two smallmuscles {levatores menti^ fig. 165, p. 145) which, as shown inChapter VIIL, arise from the lower jaw near the alveolar pro-cess, and are inserted nito theinteo:ument of the chin. Thissign is very large in the ac-companying portrait of Wil-liam Gilmore Simms. Itcauses in some persons ashort transverse wrinkle be-tween the chin and lowerlip. The same muscles serveto protrude the lower lip andform the sign of the closelyallied quality of Contempt^of which we shall have moreto say when we come to speakof the mouth. Scorn is a kindof disdainful pride and haugh-tiness, while Contempt ispride exhibited toward whatever we consider low, vulgar, orbeneath us. Both will be found associated with a large de-velopment of Self-Esteem, and generally with defi-cient Approbativeness andVeneration. They arehardly consistent withChristian humility, whichteaches us to unlearncontempt, and not toscorn kindred clay, sinceit has, like ours, Godsima
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