Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 244
causes of all things. Was thereever anything so stupid as that shrug of the shoulders, andthat leaden gaze, and that motion toward a twigging of thenose, which is exhibited by the Frenchman when he is calledupon to know anything or to believe anything beyond theevidence of his senses ? Yes : the… … 242 COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY. solemnly that reason has an office to perform, and that bymeans of it he knows something that he did not know before,viz., that the horse is pulled along by the cart, and that whatpeople have supposed to be the effect is in reality the cause!He resembles the alligator,…
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