New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 332. —PBAYERriTLNESS. PRATERFULNESS 231 ed. Instinctively we bow the body and raise the eyes inprayer, as though the visible heavens were the seat of the language of the poet— Prayer is the upward glancing of the eye,When none but God is near. Although the savage does not always distinguish God from the heavensabove him, thisdirection of theeye would appearto be the sourceof the universalbelief that the Su-preme Being hashis throne
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 332. —PBAYERriTLNESS. PRATERFULNESS 231 ed. Instinctively we bow the body and raise the eyes inprayer, as though the visible heavens were the seat of the language of the poet— Prayer is the upward glancing of the eye,When none but God is near. Although the savage does not always distinguish God from the heavensabove him, thisdirection of theeye would appearto be the sourceof the universalbelief that the Su-preme Being hashis throne idolatrous Fig. 333.—^Eye—Muscular Action. ne^ro in pravino* for rice and yams, or that he may be active and swift, lifts hiseyes to the canopy of the sky. So, in intercourse with God, though we are taught thatour globe is continually re-volving, and though reli- z^-^^^SW. i_lgion inculcates that God is everywhere, yet, under the /^ jfj^ \ \ influence of this position ofthe eye, which is no doubtdesigned for a purpose, w^e.
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