ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN 



we should have examples of the sublime in sentiment — if the 

 animal propensities, the best types to denote each particular passion 

 as it fixes its mark on the features. Would any argument be 

 so powerful an advocate for temperance, as the busts of the 

 sensualist, the glutton, and the inebriate? The appeal of the 

 Romans and Spartans to their children * would be less powerful 

 checks to arrest the progress of the inebriate, than a series of casts 

 taken from persons in the different stages of intoxication, particu- 

 larly the idiotic stage of complete inebriation. These casts would 

 be good studies for the physiognomist. He would find that there 

 might be features very well formed, or extremely plain, but with a 

 similar expression, because the brain ceasing to stimulate the fea- 

 tures, they would have all the appearance of fatuity. 



Before bringing these miscellaneous observations to a close, I 

 submit the following practical truths. 1st., That most criminals 

 have broad noses, flattened out at the extremity (the alse quse nasi 

 extended) ; the mouth large, the lips thin, and in nearly straight 

 lines, without any undulation; the chin broad and deep; and the 

 heads, in all extreme cases, broad from ear to ear, with defective 

 moral sentiments, and very moderate intelligence. 



2nd. Measuring the face of a great many good heads similarly 

 to those of the criminals, that is, from the roots of the nose, just 

 below Individuality {os nasi)^ to the curve of the chin, we could 

 not find any thing like a positive difference, and very often the 

 forms of the nose also agreed ; the only positive difference being 

 in the mouth, and this is by no means surprising, when we 

 consider the number of muscles which produce its various mo- 

 tions ; and as these motions are different in emotions of the sen- 

 timents and in the animal passions, the results of their constant 

 actions impart forms to this interesting organ (the mouth) which 

 are the least fallacious of any of the physiognomical signs. I re- 

 collect a young man who was nearly idiotic, the son of a learned 

 divine, whose features were so like those of his father that they 

 might be considered a fac-simile, with the exception of the mouth, 

 which had a very different expression. 



Again, we often see persons with faultless faces, who have as 

 much expression as dolls carved from wood. In such cases, the 

 mouth will tell something, as the muscles have been moved as me- 



• I allude to the practice of the Bomans making their slaves, and the 

 Spartans their helots, beastly intoxicated, to disgust their children with the 

 vice of inebriation. 



