New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . tian. THE 558.—Egyptian Head. It sccms probable that the an- cient Phoenicians were a branch of the Semitic family, thoughthey apparently approximated the European character andconfiguration. In them the commercial and manufacturingspirit predominated. They were the adventurous mariners ofTyre and Sidon, and the merchant princes of Carthage, andformed the connecting link, as it were, between the Orientaland the Occidentaltypes. Our ill
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . tian. THE 558.—Egyptian Head. It sccms probable that the an- cient Phoenicians were a branch of the Semitic family, thoughthey apparently approximated the European character andconfiguration. In them the commercial and manufacturingspirit predominated. They were the adventurous mariners ofTyre and Sidon, and the merchant princes of Carthage, andformed the connecting link, as it were, between the Orientaland the Occidentaltypes. Our illustra-tion (fig. 559) isborrowed from theMortonian cata-logue. It is a verysingular skull, andis interesting on ac-count of its associa-tions as well as ofits antiquity. says: I received this ^^s- 559.—Ph(enician Skull. highly interesting relic from M. F. Fresnel, the distinguishedFrench archaeologist and traveler, with the following memo*randum, 1847 : Crane provenant des caves sepulchrales de Ben-Djemma,dans, Iile de Malte. Ce crane parait avoir appartenu a unindividu de la race qui dans les temps les plus THE HINDOO 449 occupait la cote septentrionale de iAfi-i(iuo, ot les iles adja-centes. * THE HINDOO. The term Hindoo is often applied in a loose way to tribeshaving little if any atiinity with the true Aryan or dominant
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