Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . ^ setting herthe example, but youwill fail in the is only to the words Polly want cracker f that she deignsa response. She despises servile imitation, and aspires tooriginality. Think you she is going to make a ninny of her-self by showing her weakness and dependence ? Rather thannot talk at all, she will say what she has heard others say, butit will be when she supposes you have forgotten it. Shewould much rather do what you do not want her to do—toimitate your infirmities, for example — as therein she showsshe is n
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . ^ setting herthe example, but youwill fail in the is only to the words Polly want cracker f that she deignsa response. She despises servile imitation, and aspires tooriginality. Think you she is going to make a ninny of her-self by showing her weakness and dependence ? Rather thannot talk at all, she will say what she has heard others say, butit will be when she supposes you have forgotten it. Shewould much rather do what you do not want her to do—toimitate your infirmities, for example — as therein she showsshe is not indebted to a master. She aspires to originality ineverything. You see in her all sorts of one-sided, strange, 21. 322 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. outlandish motions, the results of her unwillingness to followin the footsteps of others. In inferior minds the love of originality shows itself inoddity, and, when this is connected with a taste for wit, in aconstant exhibition of drollery. There is a perfect agreementbetween the parrot and the clown, and the value that is at-tached to them is the same in both. They are tolerated forthe same reason, viz., the amusement they afford by the con-stant exhibition of something new and startling, and by theirbuffoonery. It is a vulgar taste, identical with that whichgleans the horrible and awful in newspapers, and prefersa lusus natures to what is orderly and beautiful. Those whopatronize clowns are people who have the same traits, but arein too high a station, or consider it a little below their dig-nity, to act the part of buffoons. Still the clown, though hemakes a fool of himself, in compliance with the notion thata fool is a rare commodity in a court, has o
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