New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . we have remarkedin the chapter on the tempera-ments, are quick, the sensesacute, the imagination lively andbrilliant. It is the literary, theartistic, and especially the poeticform. Shakspeare, Chaucer,Spenser, Tasso, Dante, Cervan-tes, Montaigne, Madame Genlis,Rogers, Wordsworth, Tenny-son, Poe, Mazzini, Rubens,Flaxman, Horace Yernet, All-ston. Cole, and Church furnishnoted examples of this style of face. The pyriform or conical face, in its typical f
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . we have remarkedin the chapter on the tempera-ments, are quick, the sensesacute, the imagination lively andbrilliant. It is the literary, theartistic, and especially the poeticform. Shakspeare, Chaucer,Spenser, Tasso, Dante, Cervan-tes, Montaigne, Madame Genlis,Rogers, Wordsworth, Tenny-son, Poe, Mazzini, Rubens,Flaxman, Horace Yernet, All-ston. Cole, and Church furnishnoted examples of this style of face. The pyriform or conical face, in its typical form, is never proper and natural inchildhood, and where itexists, as in fig. 134, indi-cates precociousness andan excessive, abnormal,and hurtful developmentof the brain, either in-herited or acquired,through injudicious andpremature mental culture,at the expense of the cases should be takenin hand at once, and every/^^^^^^^l^^^i^^:^^./yy/y/^ efibrt made to restore the balance by a proper courseof physical training, byrig. Vernkt. encouraging out-door re- creation, healthful sports, and careless good-humor, and by a. THE P TRIFORM FACE 123 complete suspension of all set mental tasks and school studies. The proper form of the childish face is represented in fig. connection between this form of face and mentality is beautifully illustrated in the effect produced by cultivation on persons whohave grown upin comparativeignorance andunder circum-stances not cal-culated to callthe intellectualfaculties into ac-
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