New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . considering — there is greatbreadth both of the base ofthe brain and of the lower partof the face proper, indicatinggreat executiveness, abundantvitality, and immense animalpower. Ethnologically, it isthe Sclavonic face, and belongsmore particularly to a race not-ed for physical strength, endur-ance, and unconquerable tena-city. Menschikoff, who com-manded the Russian army in the Crimean war, was of this race,and showed the qualities we have ascribed t
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . considering — there is greatbreadth both of the base ofthe brain and of the lower partof the face proper, indicatinggreat executiveness, abundantvitality, and immense animalpower. Ethnologically, it isthe Sclavonic face, and belongsmore particularly to a race not-ed for physical strength, endur-ance, and unconquerable tena-city. Menschikoff, who com-manded the Russian army in the Crimean war, was of this race,and showed the qualities we have ascribed to the form of whichwe are speaking. The indomitable persistency and cool cour-age with which he held the allied armies of England andFrance so long in check, and the terrible repulses they met athis hands, are matters of history. He is a good type of themodern Russian of the highest class. II.—The Round Face. The predominance of the vital or nutritivesystem, occupying the great cavities of thetrunk, tends to give breadth and thickness ofbody, limbs, and head. The most strikingcharacteristic of this constitution \% rotundity Y\g. Fig. 127.—Thb English Girl.
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