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bearing of the eye, the brutal projection of the mouth, the 

 lapse of the eyebrows and no&e, and the complete distor- 

 tion of the latter characteristic, express a total debasement 

 and abandonment of the mind. If, then, we assume the 

 face of Pan as the lowest state of sensual degadation to 

 which man can fall, as the boundary which separates him 

 from brutes, and assume the unpolluted face of the Greek 

 ideal as the shade which mingles him with gods, we obtain 

 another standard to judge of moral brutalization or refine- 

 ment. 



We are sorry that our limits will not allow us to follow 

 the lecturer throuoh a masterly analysis of the passions, 

 their physiognomical effects, and their modification by the 

 different lemperanients of the body, whether phlegmatic, 

 sanguine, or melancholic. We have stated enoua;h in de- 

 taibntr his remarks on Greek statuary to render his object 

 lucid and practicable, — the erection of a standard for moral 

 propensities as well as intellectual energies. 



Animal life and its territory was the last division of his 

 subject. Its indications, he said, were extremely simple, 

 and easily explained. All relaxation is accompanied by a 

 separation of the jaws — total debility is accompanied by a 

 total laxity of the under-jaw, the extreme of which is death. 

 Firm strength is designated by a firm closure of the teeth, 

 the last extreme of which is the clastic unnatural animal 

 power, which imparts its convulsive violence to inadness, 

 and which, as well as anger, classically called a short mad- 

 ness, is expressed by a vehement compression of the jaws 

 or gnashing of the teeth. A rectilinear chin, said Mr. C. 

 like a rectilinear forehead, is the ideal standard. All great 

 philosophers have possessed an angularity of chin. Glut- 

 tons, and men who sacrifice intellect to sense, the contrary. 

 The chins of tiie fair sex are always smaller and chaster in 

 their form than those of men. A chin that projects, un- 

 less beyond a certain point, displays animal strength; that 

 which recedes, animal deficiency. The same rules, there- 

 fore, which apply to the forehead apply to the chin. Nor 

 is the mouth a less strong hieroglyphic than the eyebrow. 

 Every one is aware of the distortion to which contempt 

 and sensuality subject the mouth ; but there is a more ge- 

 neral and universally applicable axiom depending on this 

 subject, for the forehead of brutes is not more dissimilar 

 from that of man than their mouths. The intermediate 

 degrees between them are prcsrnant with the same deduc- 

 tions. A scale, therefore, may be applied to all the gra- 

 dations of character in the human face; and if a scale, the 

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