FACIAL ANGLE, 



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of Camper, called the facial angle. He imagines a 

 straight line drawn from the forehead to the upper lip, 

 and another forming an angle with it, from the lip hori- 

 zontally backwards. As the prominence of the fore- 

 head is produced by the cerebrum, the greater the lat- 

 ter is, the greater will this angle be. In a well-formed 

 European head, the facial angle is about 85, as is rep- 

 resented in this figure ; in some of the Grecian statues 



of the gods, it is frequently over 90, thus indicating the 

 supernatural perfection of the Deity. 



Emily. The poor Negro must suffer sadly by this 

 test, for not only is his forehead low and retreating, but 

 his jaws project considerably at least the upper one 

 does a circumstance which will materially lessen the 



angle. 



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Dr. B. True it is rather an unfair test, when appli- 

 ed to the Negro, in whom the angle is 7 or 8 Q less 

 than in the European, as you may see by comparing this 

 next figure, which represents the Nescro's skull, with 

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