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the mouth and chin retreat feebly beneath the nut-cracking 

 hook, giving all the appearance of strength in the face to the 

 upper mandible, as if it were intended for the fool to hang 

 himself up to roost by, after the manner of the bird. 



The vault of the Eagle's beak, on the contrary, is very 

 gradual, while the lower mandible, which expresses will and 

 energy, is extended out nearer to a line with the top of the 

 head. Close beneath this line and to the base of the nos- 

 trils, the eyes are placed, giving at once an expression of 

 fierce alertness, very different from those of the parrot's, 

 which are set near the middle of the head. 



Tracing this facial line down from the conqueror through 

 all the grades of men, he finds it everywhere associated with 

 aspiration and daring temper with the impulses of the hero, 

 if not with heroic deeds ! Though the headstrong fool with 

 his parrot-bill, approaches this line closely on one side, and 

 the vulture-beaked Jew hungering for offal on the other, yet 

 the careful Artist is not confused thereby. He sees that in 

 the pawn-broker and old-clothes man, the line is that of the 

 vulture depressed near the " downward eye," and vaulting 

 nearer the end which lingers prolonged into a hungry curve 

 that seems formed to tear a way into the vitals. 



HOAV loathsome the vulture-man, as the Artist sees him 

 with his wrinkled, scaly, scavenger look true to the anti- 

 type, in base brow and beak, cunning eye, and even to the 

 thin and recurved bristles on the back of the skinny neck 

 and head ! 



The straight, Grecian profile expresses to him a perfect 

 harmony of the moral, or spiritual and physical lives in the 

 human. A slight deviation from this line expresses there- 

 fore a vast deal. Whenever this vaults into the arch, it in- 

 fallibly expresses energy, unreasoning or viciously aggressive, 

 just in proportion as the arch departs violently on either 

 side from this symmetrical line. 



Thus the parrot's vaulting out beyond this line quickly, 

 expresses idiotic obstinacy and indomitable propensities for 



