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ni-isquerade, is aware that ihe substitution of an eyebrow, 

 or a false nose, will baffle personal recognition as strongly 

 as if the face was disfigured by a mask. 



To prove the proposiuon that the three existences of man 

 had their distinct provinces of the face, Mr. C. observed, 

 that with regard to intellect, the mere fact that the fore- 

 head was the superficial boundary of the brain, that is, the 

 visible boundary, (for with the invisible, as far as regarded 

 physiognomical practice, there was no necessity to inter- 

 fere,) substantiated the deduction if the preceding pre- 

 mises were true, which regards it as the tablet and mirror of 

 intellect. Experience was the best argument, that sensi- 

 tive or moral existence acted on that portion of the face 

 which occupies from the brows to the mouth ; and no one 

 could doubt the fact who had ever seen the eyes lighted up 

 by love or dimmed by sorrow ; that had ever beheld the 

 cheeks irradiated by joy, flushed by hope, dimpled by be- 

 nevolence, or excavated by envy, jealousy, or ambition- 

 Animal life, the lowest species of existence, next drew the 

 attention of the learned Lecturer, and this, by demonstra- 

 tion as well as by experience, would be found to reside in 

 the lower part of the human face occupying from the mouth 

 to the throat. That this was a fact, he said, independently 

 of other evidence, Anatomy, at once the nurse and sister 

 of Physiognomy, loudly and strongly attests ; — she attests, 

 that those portions of the frame in which animal strength 

 resides, are concatenated wi^h the muscles that move the 

 arm and chin; — she demonstrates, and Pathognomy co- 

 gently pourtrays the demonstration, that in vast exertions 

 of animal power the under jaw is firmly knitted to the up- 

 per : that in all cases of bodily debility, or menial apathy, 

 the under jaw drops and depends ; — she points to the well- 

 known influence of old age, in still further augmenting the 

 visibility of this dependin^g characteristic ; and she appeals 

 to Death itself, whether Ihe total laxity of the under jaw- 

 be not its most positive and most undeniable syrnptom. 



After makine some remarks on the impracticability of 

 the theory of Gall as applied to living beings, inasmuch as 

 the organs by that Professor arc diffused over the whole 

 surface of the scull, the Lecturer proceeded to define the 

 gradated differences between intellect and inanity, observ- 

 ing that, if his foregoing premises, were true, the difle- 

 rcnce between the ratiocinative faculties of brutes and men 

 should be marked in the boldest delineation on the foreheads 

 of the different species. The difference, in short, con- 

 sisted in this, that man has a forehead slightly inclining 



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