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even go further in attaching a false and slanderous label to the 

 countenance, owing to the interlocking mechanism of emotion, 

 passion, and nutrition, above alluded to. 



Doubtless some of my readers have chanced to contract a black 

 eye in a perfectly innocent and unpugnacious manner. Let us 

 suppose, for the sake of argument, that it resulted from a sharp 

 return across the tennis net. Until the last of the dismal tints 

 fades away, such a one bears about with him one of the most 

 generally accepted proofs of a hasty disposition and of a black- 

 guardly encounter. Yet the victim himself and each of his 

 friends who will believe his statement knows that not only is he 

 innocent of a breach of the peace, but that, when he received the 

 ugly mark, he was engaged in one of the most amiable of recre- 

 ations. 



Now in like manner, certain popularly received evidences of 

 a bad moral record may be printed accidentally from within. 

 For the molecular impulses welling forth from a disturbed emo- 

 tional center may chance to flow along channels usually occu- 

 pied by less innocent currents, and may produce an expression 

 nearly identical with that which accompanies some form of vice. 

 And yet, all the time, the said emotion may be as essentially dis- 

 tinct from the travelers which usually follow the track, as were 

 Bunyan's Pilgrims when they walked the streets of Vanity. In 

 such a case it will be seen that, in spite of outward appearance 5 

 not only is there no guilt, but there may be also a complete ab- 

 sence of evil inclination. 



To return from what I fear may be regarded by some as a 

 rather arid and metaphysical region, let us take stock of the typ- 

 ical characteristics of the musician, the priest, and the sensual- 

 ist, who have so oddly foregathered in the interests of science. 

 Physiognomy, it will be seen, like misfortune, makes strange 

 bedfellows. 



To get our typical musician, we must, to some extent, follow 

 the example of the society caricaturist. That is, we must gen- 

 eralize, after the fashion of a composite photograph, and then 

 slightly magnify the traits which are found to be common to 

 most members of the class. Probably professional singers ap- 

 proach our ideal most nearly, because the mastery of the tech- 

 nique of voice music involves fewer disturbing influences (from 

 our point of view) than does the mastery of any complex external 

 instrument. 



The average musician's face shows but little trace of muscular 

 activity, but evidences of trophic changes due to sympathetic 

 disturbance are abundant. The skin, especially beneath the eyes 

 and about the throat, tends to be full and baggy, and is often 

 filled out with local accumulations of fat. As a rule, the eyes 



