CHAPTER IV. 



Differences of Features. — Forms of the Skull. — Teeth. — Attempted 

 Explanations. 



Although it is a common and very just observation, that 

 two individuals are hardly to be met with possessing exactly 

 the same features, and although this variety, according with 

 what we observe throughout all nature *, is a simple and ef- 

 fectual provision for very important ends, yet there is gene- 

 rally a certain cast of countenance common to the particular 

 races of men, and often to the inhabitants of particular coun- 

 tries. The five following varieties are established by Blu- 

 MENBACHf, after a careful comparison of numerous draw- 

 ings and of the various races themselves, in situations where 

 commerce attracts them from all parts of the globe, as at 

 London and Amsterdam. This distribution is only meant 

 to indicate the most leading traits : details and minute par- 

 ticulars are not therefore taken into consideration. 



1. An oval and straight face, with the different parts mo- 

 derately distinct from each other ; high and expanded fore- 

 head ; nose narrow, and slightly aquiline, or at least with 

 the bridge somewhat convex : no prominence of the cheek- 

 bones ; small mouth, with lips slightly turned out, particu- 

 larly the lower one ; a full and rounded chin. 



* " Prasterea genus humanum, mutasque natantes 

 Scsuammigerum pecudes, et laeta armenta, feraeque, 

 Et varia* volucres ; kctantia quae loca aquarum 

 Concelebrant, circum ripas, fonteisque, lacusque ; 

 Et quae pervolgant neuiora avia pcrvolitantes ; 

 Ilorum iinum quodvis generatim sumere perge : 

 Invenies tamen inter se diitare figuris. 

 Nee raiione alia proles cognoscere matreui, 

 Nee mater posstt prolem ; quod posse videmus, 

 Nee minus atque homines inter se nota cluere." 



LUCRET. 1. ii. 

 i Df Gcn> Human. Var. Nat. Sect. iii. § 56. 



