The Illustrated Self-instructor in Phrenology and Physiology: With One Hundred Engravings, and a Chart of the Character ... |
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Page 31 - The expressions of the eye convey precise ideas of the existing and predominant states of the mentality and physiology. As long as the constitution remains unimpaired the eye is clear and bright, but becomes languid and soulless in proportion as the brain has been enfeebled. Wild, erratic persons have a half-crazed expression of eye, while calmness...
Page 13 - Thus, not only do tiger form and character always accompany each other, but leopards, panthers, cats, and all feline species resemble this tiger shape more or less closely, according as their dispositions approach or depart from his; and monkeys approach nearer to the human shape, and also mentality, than any other animal except orang-outangs, which are still more human both in shape and character, and form the connecting link between man and brute. How absolute and universal, therefore, the correspondence,...