New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 78t What, then, do these pictures, or, rather, their subject, prove ?Simply that an actor, or an actress—that any person havingthe proper endowments, large Imitation, Comparison, Ideal-ity, etc., with mobile features and a supple body—can, byassuming mentally^ for the time being, any particular strongly marked trait or traits of character,assume also, sofar as actionand the tempo-rary expressionof the featuresmay go, the cor-responding ex-ternal t
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 78t What, then, do these pictures, or, rather, their subject, prove ?Simply that an actor, or an actress—that any person havingthe proper endowments, large Imitation, Comparison, Ideal-ity, etc., with mobile features and a supple body—can, byassuming mentally^ for the time being, any particular strongly marked trait or traits of character,assume also, sofar as actionand the tempo-rary expressionof the featuresmay go, the cor-responding ex-ternal will be im-Fig. 786. perfect at best, but will approach perfection just in proportion as the actorshall be capable of becoming internally (for the time) whathe may desire to appear to he externally / for the expressionmust, after all, be in a certain sense a true one. This illustrateswhat is meant by entering into the sj^irit of anything onemay undertake. If we sometimes fail to detect the true beneath the maskof the false^ the fault is in our ohservation and not in theobject. Even dissimulation itself has a
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