Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . ?n, the pretended hypochondriac is easily distinguishedfrom the portrait, which has the expression of genuine senti-ment and Btern reality. The Becond criticism is now in turn. First, it says of thebrain, that M it is the trunk of the mental tree, and that alloutward signs of character and emotion spring from and de-pend upon it, as do the branches and leaves of the naturalupon its trunk. According to this, all the outwardsign- of character and emotion are in the arms and hands,and the features and expressions of the countenan
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . ?n, the pretended hypochondriac is easily distinguishedfrom the portrait, which has the expression of genuine senti-ment and Btern reality. The Becond criticism is now in turn. First, it says of thebrain, that M it is the trunk of the mental tree, and that alloutward signs of character and emotion spring from and de-pend upon it, as do the branches and leaves of the naturalupon its trunk. According to this, all the outwardsign- of character and emotion are in the arms and hands,and the features and expressions of the countenance, whichare compared to branches and leaves. This is more than weare willing to accept, for we acknowledge that there are someoutward signs of character in the skull. The next objection is the more formidable on account of rtion, which is this: We often find a person, whose father and mother are very unlike in character, who - in head one parent and in face the other. Such a persons character is always found to follow the phrenological development The face wil
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