New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 506.—Shakppeaeb. a builder, an agriculturist, a trader, a financier—a man ofaffairs (as the French say), in almost any department, and canhardly fail to be a successful one. He will also greatly enjoysociety and the family relations. There is evidently a lack of the delicate sensibilities, theelegant tastes, and the refinement ^vhich belong to organiza-tions of finer texture; but practical sense, self-appreciation,self-protection, hatred of injust
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 506.—Shakppeaeb. a builder, an agriculturist, a trader, a financier—a man ofaffairs (as the French say), in almost any department, and canhardly fail to be a successful one. He will also greatly enjoysociety and the family relations. There is evidently a lack of the delicate sensibilities, theelegant tastes, and the refinement ^vhich belong to organiza-tions of finer texture; but practical sense, self-appreciation,self-protection, hatred of injustice, wrong, and sham^ warmth ANCIENT TYPES PRESERVED 401. of heart, and genuine kindliness are clearly and strongly indicated. Practical and matter-of-fact as the English mind generally is, til ere is not lacking apoetical a n d speculativevein. Englishmen havedone something else besidesmanufacture, trade, a n dfight. They are justified inboasting of such names asShakspeare, Milton, Byron,Wordsworth, Bacon, Locke,Tennyson, Newton, Watt,Stephenson, Whitney, Bol-ton, Herschel, and Davy. AKCIENT TYPES PRESERVED. %. ^S -^^ many of the rural \ ^ \^ districts of England andFig. 507.—Whitney. Wales, the amalgamation of types of which we have spoken has been measurably in-operative, the mass of the inhabitants having continued inthe spots where they originally set-tled, and their intermixture withthe people of other parts of thekingdom not being sufficiently ex-tensive to obliterate the traces of iumfMo^-^^^mtheir derivation. The circumstan- J^Hp ^fei Ijii^^^^^^iices m which they have been placed I^^BI; (kAhavenot, moreover, been of a nature ^^MJi
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