OUR BEST FEATURES 



and which low? Eighth, the student of crime and 

 criminals endeavors to discover correlations be- 

 tween certain types of face and constitutional pre- 

 disposition to crime. Ninth, the psychoanalyst 

 will undoubtedly seek for traces in every face of 

 the sore conflict between the "censor" and the 

 rebellious subconsciousness. Tenth, the psychia- 

 trist, studying pathologic types of mentality, may 

 approach his material from any of the above 

 described paths. Let us see now how much room 

 there is for the old-fashioned physiognomy. 



I undoubtedly inherit the general ground-plan 

 of my face from my excessively remote shark-like 

 ancestors who possessed paired olfactory capsules, 

 paired eyes and paired internal ears, arranged in 

 the order named, and who had a medium mouth 

 below the nose and eyes. I also owe to these 

 humble creatures the framework of my tongue and 

 vocal organs, my jaw and throat muscles and 

 many other features both useful and necessary. 



Next, I owe to the primitive lobe-finned fishes 

 or crossopts the complete bony scaffolding of the 

 face and jaws, which in them lay on the surface but 

 in my own face is deeply buried beneath the flesh. 



Then I owe to the higher mammal-like reptiles 



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