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accentuated—the reduction of the jaw and the increase of the 
skull being the most marked features. The prognathous face 
with receding forehead of the infant gradually elongates during 
life, and assumes a less and less prognathous character, owing to 
the great amount of growth in the upper portion of the face— 
the forehead especially. (Compare the figures in the Plate.) 
In adult Man, age, say twenty, the face may be called 
almost upright—the nose is longer and narrower than in the 
infant, the toes are not separately articulated.* Soon after this 
time physical strength begins to decline, but the brain-power 
increases, and the increased brain-power demands increased 
skull, which grows more and more over the eyes. 
Soon after twenty in some cases—I take extreme examples 
the better to illustrate the development—the hair, the teeth, 
and the sight begin to fail. As years progress they decline 
more and more, and in adyanced age they fail altogether. 
Another feature of advanced age is the extreme beak-like 
elongation of the nose.t 
* The feet certainly do not grow so large in proportion to the increased size 
of the man as they did formerly, while the legs are probably longer. The toes 
become more and more useless and less under control ; with the exception of the 
big toe they are really rudimentary, and no doubt the tendency is to develop a 
one-toed foot. 
[+ By the law of earlier inheritance we are advancing to being a longer-nosed 
race; but why, is not clear. That it is an inherent property among the 
Primates may be inferred from the independent development of nose in such 
different stocks as adult Europeans, Jews, Fuegians, and Semmopithecus nasicus 
(the Nose-ape), Among ourselves the long nose which is an adult feature is corre- 
lated with other adult features—decline of physical strength and increase of 
brain-power—therefore the appearance of pronounced nose early in life among 
ourselves would probably be accompanied by one or both of these characters. 
Among the Jews—a race which may be considered to have longest maintained a 
high civilised standard, the nose isa very prominent feature ; their intellectual 
activity and disinclination for manual labour are well known. Among the 
Fuegians and Semmopithecus nasicus the nose has not been acquired in conjunc- 
tion with these features ; and therefore among them ‘“‘nosiness” would not have 
the same significance, Among ourselves, the poorer classes in London seem the 
most long-nosed on the average, and they are exposed to conditions which we 
call the most unnatural, and are least able to escape the effects thereof. Among 
us, men of all classes are, on the average, more ‘‘nosey” than women—a snub- 
nosed man being a rarity.] 
