An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart . lative to the proper means to be employed in the recovery and preservation of health. THIS WOBK PRESENTS A New and Complete Analysis and Classification OF THE TEMPERAMENTS OR FORMS OF MANKIND, And Designates a great numlDer of Faculties heretofore nnrecognised, tLePhysiognomical Signs of which have Never Before Been Discovered. In this Chart every power is marked upon a scale of from one to twelve, an extendedgradation which enables the Examiner to reach every extreme, and to assign its relativeposition to every important mod
An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart . lative to the proper means to be employed in the recovery and preservation of health. THIS WOBK PRESENTS A New and Complete Analysis and Classification OF THE TEMPERAMENTS OR FORMS OF MANKIND, And Designates a great numlDer of Faculties heretofore nnrecognised, tLePhysiognomical Signs of which have Never Before Been Discovered. In this Chart every power is marked upon a scale of from one to twelve, an extendedgradation which enables the Examiner to reach every extreme, and to assign its relativeposition to every important modification of character. Eead^and learn The lore which wig-crowned History scorns, bnt which is •Eternally fixed hy the Immutable Laws of Nature. 18 7 3. ^%. Entered, acoording to Act of Parliament, in the year 1872y by J. SiiyiMS, ,in Stationers* Hall, London. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 187^, by J. Simms, ,in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. DUNN & WEIGHT, PRINTERS, GLASGOW. SCOTLAND—ISTS. |HYSIOGNOMY is the art, or science by which thecharacteristics of the mind are dis.,., ,ered in thegeneral configuration of the body, and particularlyin the features of the face. The present book is arevised and enlarged edition of a Physiognomical Chartwhich I published some time since in the UnitedStates, and which was, as far as I am aware, the first,of the kind, that has ever been presented to the face of man is like the face of a clock, which bydefinite external signs reveals the workings of the inwardmachinery. T have said that these signs are definite, yet, asa clock would tell the hours in vain to one who was ignoranthow to interpret the movements of its hands, so the humancountenance would vainly represent the character to those who were unableto decipher its emblematic writing. H ence the value of a reliable system ofPhysiognomy to aid the instinctive, but often mistaken judgments whichall men immedi
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