Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 142
fromwhich proceeds humility instead of pride, true dignity insteadof arrogance — so nearly do opposite faculties and their signsapproach each other! The horse, by his resemblance to the artist, is related tothe sun (which pencils and paints), to every halo, to the rain-bow, the morning dawn, and… … the mind of man to substitute asses in their stead. Oxen maybe yoked to the moon, which ascends the horizon like a loadedwain, but the chariot of the sun must be drawn by horses.As the difference between the beauty of objects in moonlightand of objects in sunlight, so is the difference between…
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