New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . has Veneration, and he worships. All nations, races,and tribes of men worship something. Man is 7iaturally areligious being. When enlightened by Christian teaching heworships God. When unenlightened, he bows down to woodand stone, and worships images, idols, fire, water, sun, moon,stars, and other objects. But animals have no Veneration, no sense of godliness, norBpiritual insight. Animals have njo sense of justice, no hopeof immortality, no benevolenc
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . has Veneration, and he worships. All nations, races,and tribes of men worship something. Man is 7iaturally areligious being. When enlightened by Christian teaching heworships God. When unenlightened, he bows down to woodand stone, and worships images, idols, fire, water, sun, moon,stars, and other objects. But animals have no Veneration, no sense of godliness, norBpiritual insight. Animals have njo sense of justice, no hopeof immortality, no benevolence or brotherly kindness. Theyhave not the organs or nerves through which these emotionsare expressed. Their brain is all below the lower line, as maybe seen by looking at the skull of the gorilla, fig. 872. Thereis something in animals akin to kindness, and that is this is only that instinct which induces the horse and dogto love his master, and the mother monkey, bird, or snake toprovide for its young. Reason and Religion and Benevolenceare manifested through organs located higher up than theanimal instinct and XXXIII. ANIMAL HEADS. * A beast that wants discourse of reason.—Shakspeare, SEFUL lessons in Physiognomyand Phrenology (as we haveshown in the last chapter) maybe drawn from the animal kino;-dom; and it will not be un-profitable, we think, to pursue ^ the subject a little furthef, es-pecially as the scope of the pre-ceding remarks was necessarily - limited to particular aspects ? of it. We have looked at the ani-mal kingdom as a graduatedseries of creations, ascendingstep by step from the micro-Fig. 875.—Domesticated Deer. SCOpic infusoria of a drop of stagnant water to lordly man. We have seen what markeddiflierences there are in organization and in intelligence, butwe have paid little attention to specific and individual diff*er-ences. We will now call the readers attention to the factthat animals differ not less in the kind than in the
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