History and progress of phrenology (Read before the Western phrenological society, at Buffalo,) . vinced himself of what issince so well known, namely, that there have existed3 14 HISTORY OF PHRENOLOGY. various animals of which the species are at presentextinct. Following up this subject he wrote a disser-tation upon natural varieties, in which he has distin-guished the varieties of the human family by the shapeof the scull. His treatise upon the natural differenceof features in persons of various countries ; and histreatise upon beauty, have both been translated intoEnglish, by Cogan ; and a
History and progress of phrenology (Read before the Western phrenological society, at Buffalo,) . vinced himself of what issince so well known, namely, that there have existed3 14 HISTORY OF PHRENOLOGY. various animals of which the species are at presentextinct. Following up this subject he wrote a disser-tation upon natural varieties, in which he has distin-guished the varieties of the human family by the shapeof the scull. His treatise upon the natural differenceof features in persons of various countries ; and histreatise upon beauty, have both been translated intoEnglish, by Cogan ; and a copy of them, in quarto,London, 1794, with numerous plates, we have nowbefore us. The facial angle, of which Camper is thewell known inventer, is here illustrated at is based upon the difference in the shape of thebones of the face of men and other animals. The jawsof brutes are more projecting than those of men ; andon this relation of the jaw to the forehead, is foundedCampers theory of this angle, which will be readilyunderstood by the following sketch. HISTORY OF PHRENOLOGY. 15. Here, the right line A B, drawn along the base ofthe scull, passes across the orifice of the ear, and tothe bottom of the nose, while the right line A C,extends from the roots of the upper incisors to theforehead, which it just touches. The angle openedby these two lines will be more acute the less theshape of the face, in brutes, resembles that of is this angle which Camper supposed would pointout the specifick differences in the heads of men andother animals ; and also of the different races of men. 16 HISTORY OF PHRENOLOGY. In some mammalia he found this angle no more than20° ; and from this it gradually rose, through thedifferent classes of animals, and the varieties of thehuman family, to 85° in the scull of the angle in the above sketch is 70° , which is thatassigned by Camper to the Negro. The succeedingoutline, from life, exhibits this angle about 85°.
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