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nose have we met the peculiarities of that organ which make np what 

 Ellis calls the "typical thief's nose/* An occasional mark of the 

 lesser criminal, such as the receding forehead and retreating chin, make 

 their appearance in our data, and those signs of power in the homicide 

 — the prominent jaw and cheek bones, hawk nose and thin lips — are 

 not without place in the faces of great historic characters, but with a 

 single exception we find no example of the " cold, fixed and glassy eye " 

 which according to Lombroso betokens the murderer. That exception, 

 it is needless to say, is Eobespierre, and it is no mean commentary upon 

 the value of such studies as we have been pursuing that the face of 

 Eobespierre presented as strange a compound as his soul — that with 

 the signs of strength afforded by the capacious forehead and firmly 

 compressed lips there mingled so many features which the specialists 

 in criminology accept as indications of criminality. His head, we 

 learn, was small, brow retreating, nose diminutive and quite without 

 an arch, jaw insufficiently developed, cheek bones high, eyes set close 

 and in hue a " pale, greenish gray," shadowed by eyelids which trembled 

 spasmodically. 



