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Nature's revelations of character, or, Physiognomy illustrated : a description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance (1887)

Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York : D.M. Bennett · leaf 538

An illustration from Nature's revelations of character, or, Physiognomy illustrated : a description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance, 1887, leaf 538
artificial means. Scaligerrecords that children are born with compressed temples asa result of the efforts of former generations. The women ofCumana cultivate the long face and high head by compres-sion, as in fig. 3. Perhaps it is from some hereditarytradition in favour of high heads, that, until…

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