Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . o ex[)ressionless faces are mostcommonly seen in that sphere of society. Labour chiselsthe features into clearness and cheerfulness of expression,whereas idleness will turn the most expressive and beauti-ful features into listless, sad and undefined, clam-likesmoothness. Many boys, when grown, carry faces withexpressions of emptiness and iineHia of miud. They go THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRY ON THE HUMAN FACE. ;r
Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . o ex[)ressionless faces are mostcommonly seen in that sphere of society. Labour chiselsthe features into clearness and cheerfulness of expression,whereas idleness will turn the most expressive and beauti-ful features into listless, sad and undefined, clam-likesmoothness. Many boys, when grown, carry faces withexpressions of emptiness and iineHia of miud. They go THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRY ON THE HUMAN FACE. ;r abroad to earn a living for themselves, and after twenty,or even ten years, return to their friends with faces furrowedby the plough of experience. The deep wrinkles have beencut across the brow—the nose has grown higher on thebridge—the nostrils have opened largely—the chin hasbecome more broad and far-reaching;the li[.)S having learnedto keep their own secrets, are firmly compressed; lines likediverging rays of light surround the eyes; the round, fullcheek of childhood nestles no longer there, and all is changedfrom boy to manhood. His face tells no falsehood, as it is. Diogenes, a cynic philosopher, whose mental industry has rarely,if ever, been equalled. Gods truth, and he, overflowing with strength and naturesnobility, walks forth the highest tjpe of man, lemain boys in mind until forty, or even through alife-time, undeveloped because they shunned the means ofaccomplishing their highest maturing. Childrens faces areoften seen on men and women of thirty and forty years of 450 THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRY ON THE HU.^AN FACE. age. Their lives have been as smooth as glass. The greattrials of the world, which are immense furnaces to try themetal of men, have not purified and turned them to more lead is melted and cooled, the more free fromdioss it becomes; the more men have touched the antipodesof sorrowing sympathy, or repellant hatred, the less wo
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