The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . JAWS AND TEETH OF A PANTHER. Fig. JAWS AND TEETH OF A MINK. Fig. 154 represents anothermodification of carnivorous masti-cators. The teeth are nearlyclosed, and the dagger-like tusksare seen to be very different fromthose teeth which, in the humanjaw, have received the appella-tion of canine. Fig. 155. The face of the young lion, Fi£ 155, does not make any very near approachto humanity, in the conformation of theteeth or jaws. A resemblance, of course,must be acknowledged; yet, when thegeneral contour and expression of
The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . JAWS AND TEETH OF A PANTHER. Fig. JAWS AND TEETH OF A MINK. Fig. 154 represents anothermodification of carnivorous masti-cators. The teeth are nearlyclosed, and the dagger-like tusksare seen to be very different fromthose teeth which, in the humanjaw, have received the appella-tion of canine. Fig. 155. The face of the young lion, Fi£ 155, does not make any very near approachto humanity, in the conformation of theteeth or jaws. A resemblance, of course,must be acknowledged; yet, when thegeneral contour and expression of tb«human face approximates to that of 6carnivorous animal, it is by :ommon con-sent denominated savage, ruffianly, ^etc. The poets and painters who undertaketo represent to us their ideal of humanitymvanably divest tha features and expression of every trace character-istic of the ascendency of the lower range of animal propensitiesHow would the Portrait of a Gentleman. the Flower Girl, TheBrd«, or Tho Cavalier, appear in the gallery of the American All
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