FOREWORD 



pedestrians would be safer; if the ghosts of gills 

 were still functional, drowning would be impos- 

 sible, and if the fang-revealing sneer showed less 

 degenerate canines, we might have a more physi- 

 cally wholesome fear of cavilers against the doc- 

 trine of Evolution. 



The impregnable array of facts gleaned through 

 the centuries of man's intellectual supremacy 

 proves beyond all question the gradual rise toward 

 human perfection of the various components of 

 the face, and this confirms our precious organs of 

 sense as most noble gateways of the human mind 

 and soul. Kindness, gentleness, tactfulness, pa- 

 tience, can flow out through only these channels. 

 It is a worthy thing to have written a book about 

 them; it is a fortunate chance to be able to 

 read it. 



