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worse still, between husbands and wives, being endless. 

 If, then, this uniformity were to be carried a step further,. 

 and become general, we can easily see that the whole 

 foundation of civilisation would be undermined, and chaos 

 would come again ; the great question of " Who's who ? " 

 upon the more or less easy solubility of which modern life 

 is built, being thereby rendered a dark and impenetrable 

 mystery, until some beneficent fairy should step in and 

 restore the long noses, short noses, snub, Semitic and 

 Roman noses, thick lips, thin lips, big mouths like caves, 

 and little ones like rosebuds, etc., which now render re- 

 cognition easy, enabling us skilfully to evade a bore on 

 the one hand and to buttonhole our unsuspecting friends 

 on the other, or to meet our new loves and avoid our old 

 ones, with a fair certainty of not reversing the process by 

 mistake. 



Amongst our fellow-countrymen our powers of recogni- 

 tion in this respect are sharp enough ; but if we went, say 

 to China, we should find that the general characteristics of 

 high cheek-bones, slanting eyes, sallow complexions, short 

 noses, and pigtails, would necessitate a certain apprentice- 

 ship before we could easily detect the celestial John Smith 

 from the celestial Tom Robinson, though the difference 

 between the two, to celestial eyes, is probably striking 

 enough. 



To descend a bit in the scale of creation. To the 

 ordinary observer it would be impossible to detect, much 

 less define, the difference between one sheep and another 

 in a fiock of the same breed, yet the breeder will have no 

 difficulty in finding better or worse points among them ; 

 while it is notorious that many shepherds can recognise, 

 unfailingly, every sheep in their care. These external 

 differences between the individuals are further supplemented 

 by, and are partly the result of, differences in temper and 

 constitution, which represent what may be termed moral 

 variation, as distinct from physical. These differences, 



