Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . ed to servile following. The peopleof America have adopted Independence as their watchword,and an instance of the free and independent spirit wasdisplayed by the youths of Boston in the times of therevolution. Some English soldiers had knocked down thesnow houses that the boys had carefully erected, and hadbroken the ice in their skating ponds. The boys com-plained to the captain, but he only laughed at them. Th
Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . ed to servile following. The peopleof America have adopted Independence as their watchword,and an instance of the free and independent spirit wasdisplayed by the youths of Boston in the times of therevolution. Some English soldiers had knocked down thesnow houses that the boys had carefully erected, and hadbroken the ice in their skating ponds. The boys com-plained to the captain, but he only laughed at them. Theundaunted little fellows, however, knew the difFerencebetween fair fighting and capricious tyranny; they wentto the commander and related their grievances with suchboldness and manly freedom, that the general, far fromresenting the audacity of the appeal, was heard to say thatfreedom was in the very air of the country, breathed evenby its boys. Would that the minds of all the English,Scotch, Irish, and American people of the present day werefreed from the bigotry and superstition that makes mereimitative sheep of so many. What advancement andglorious happiness might all enjoy!. < MENTAL LABOUR Deep on his front eno ravenDeliberation sat, and public care.—MiLTiiN. All totally uncivilized nations are characterized by a deep-seated aversion to arduous and persevering labour, whethermental or physical. A savage people displays scarcely moreinclination for the steady pursuit of agriculture, or of thesimple manufactures of which it is capable, than for inven-tion and study; but, as the national mind develops, a tastefor the physical, and subsequently for the intellectualindustries begins to display itself, and a dawning civilizationglimmers upon the race. The further progress of thiscivilization is marked by a growing distaste for purelymanual toil, which expresses itself in the invention oflabour-saving machines, by means of which one man doesthe work of ten, or a hundred unai
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