. How to know human nature: its inner states and outer forms. Fig. 18beoad face Faces indicate a lack of these qualities. Thebroad-headed animals are the fighters, whilethe narrow-heads are the timid and peaceful,as a rule. The same principle applies in thecase of men. Look over the charts of theQualities, and see why this is. The above mentioned several types or 168 Human Nature classes of faces have, of course, innumerablevariations and combinations, but a carefulstudy of these several types will give one thegeneral key to all faces. It is well to obtain a. Fig. 19narrow face side view, as w
. How to know human nature: its inner states and outer forms. Fig. 18beoad face Faces indicate a lack of these qualities. Thebroad-headed animals are the fighters, whilethe narrow-heads are the timid and peaceful,as a rule. The same principle applies in thecase of men. Look over the charts of theQualities, and see why this is. The above mentioned several types or 168 Human Nature classes of faces have, of course, innumerablevariations and combinations, but a carefulstudy of these several types will give one thegeneral key to all faces. It is well to obtain a. Fig. 19narrow face side view, as well as a full-face view, of theface one wishes to study. In studying faces, not only the generalshape of the face must be observed, but alsothe various features thereof, as for instance:the chin; the mouth; the nose; the eyes; theears; etc. These features form the subject ofthe following chapters. CHAPTER XVII CHINS AND MOUTHS Physiognomists regard the chin as an im-portant feature to be considered in the studyof faces as the outer form of character. Thefollowing are the principal points of thereading of chins. In Fig. 20 we see the first point to be ob-served in the study of chins. The rule is todraw an imaginary perpendicular line fromthe point at the root of the nose, between thetwo eyebrows. In the normal and averagetype, the line touches the upper lip and we find the normal condition in but com-paratively few cases, the majority manifest-ing a variation backward or forward. Whenthe chin is found to recede from the line, it isinterpreted
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