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rectness of the principle, provided a vertical view upon the 

 skull, according 1 to Blumenbach, and another upon its base — 

 the lower jaw being removed as recommended by Professor 

 Owen — be likewise employed to form a comparison. The 

 highest intellectual bearded nations present, by the Camperian 

 method, individuals rising to eighty-five and even nearly to 

 ninety degrees. These are, for example, occasionally observed 

 in the Teuto-Sarmatian nobles, and, more rarely, in other 

 European nations;* but beyond the perpendicular line of fore- 

 head, there occur only indications of morbid development, and 

 ideal exaggerated profiles of Greek divinities, whose over- 

 hanging brows, and deep-seated eyes, produce the effect of a 

 calm shadowy frown, which we learn to view as an attribute 

 of majesty and conscious power. Much, however, and indeed 

 the essential, in all mental constitution, must depend upon the 

 proportions of the cerebral structure being in sufficient harmony 

 for their rational operation ; and this condition is found pre- 

 served, without material injury to ratiocination, where both the 

 anterior and posterior portions of the brain are distorted by- 

 artificial pressure in infancy, or where the volume is small, by 

 the retreating low angle of the forehead ; whether or not the 

 case applies to a whole race, or to an occasional individual 

 among the bearded tribes. 



It appears that individual interunions between the typical 

 races not only tend to the superior development of form and 



* In a series of portraits, representing Polish, East Prussian, Silesian, 

 Bohemian, and Moravian nobles, they occur frequently. The late Count 

 Harach, from our personal knowledge, was remarkable for this feature ; 

 i. e., a lofty and broad, very nearly vertical forehead; and it must be 

 added, that many so distinguished, were conspicuous as statesmen and war- 

 riors, probably all as ambitious men. It were to be wished that portrait 

 painters paid more minute attention to this object — we mean, placing the 

 aperture of the ear in relation to the nostril. It is important to them for 

 the sake of truth, and to the physiologist for the same reason; since, 

 without accuracy, he cannot draw fair conclusions from painted human 

 likenesses. 



