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is incompatible, and altogether at variance with human physiognomy.

If we take the antique as confessedly the form of beauty in the human head, we shall find that a projecting cheek-bone, or a jawbone which is large and square behind, are defects; that the too great depth of the face, which is produced by the length of teeth in the jaws, is also a deformity; that the projecting jaws are still worse; and, above all, that the monkey-like protrusion of the fore teeth takes away the dignity of human expression.

When the principles that sway our secret thoughts are discovered, and when by a comparison of the parts of the head anatomically, a secure foundation is laid for the accurate observation of nature, then the lines of Camper and Blumenbach, as applicable to the living head, will aid us in the examination of character; but of themselves these methods of measurement are imperfect, and being founded on a mistaken principle, they lead, of consequence, to unsatisfactory conclusions.

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ESSAY IX.

ESSAY IX.

OF THE NATURAL CHARACTERS AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE FORM OF THE SKULL, AND OF THE CHANGES FROM INFANCY TO AGE.

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THE bones and the parts which cover them or are contained within them, grow as it were by one impulse, so that there is always a correspondence betwixt them. The fleshy lips of the Negro bear a correspondence with the large and protuberant teeth. The individual among us who has a large square jaw-bone has a thickness

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