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compressed the beginning, middle, and end ; every line is the di- 

 rect transit to what follows. Let the reader compare this speech 

 with the gambols of Mrs. Quickly, or the Clown, in the first act of 

 this play ; the comparison is perfect. 



The play ends by the exposure of Angelo's guilt, and reparation 

 to the persecuted Mariana. The incidents are somewhat confused, 

 and the sudden absence and re-appearance of the Duke as the Friar, 

 seems awkward. Angelo's speech fills up the measure of our dis- 

 gust for his character. The determined and satanic villainy of Iago, 

 is less offensive than the pusillanimous repentance of Angelo. It 

 may be received as a truth, that a stern unforgiving rule is the 

 weakest of all virtues. The wisest men are, ceteris paribus, always 

 the most merciful, because their appreciation goes beyond the act. 



Z. 



ON THE CONNECTION OF PHRENOLOGY 

 WITH PHYSIOGNOMY.* 



By J. L. Levison. 



The science of Phrenology is one based on observation and in- 

 duction. Its professors assert that it enables them to decide on the 

 number of the connate mental faculties, their relative development, 

 and that it thus furnishes the means of ascertaining the probable cha- 

 racter of any individual, or, in other words, what are his natural ten- 

 dencies. On the other hand, the advocates of Physiognomy claim for 

 their science, data for obtaining a correct knowledge of character; and 

 they assert that its rules are also deduced from numerous observations 

 on men and animals. It will, therefore, be the object of this paper 

 to treat of the relative merits of these two sciences, and to point out 

 the greater importance of Phrenology when compared with Physi- 

 ognomy, and subsequently to prove that it is only when they are 

 studied together that the latter assumes anything of value for prac- 

 tical purposes. 



Physiognomy is but the outward manifestation of the mental fa- 

 culties, and only really so when some strong feeling or sentiment 

 communicates a particular action to the facial muscles, which, in 



* The substance of this paper forms part of one read by Mr. Levison, in 

 1027, before the members of the Hull Society for Phrenological Inquiry. 



