Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 194
sign and measure of development.It will be seen that its various contours mark every stage ofhuman progress, whether in individuals or in a race. The baby-nose is a diminutive pug—the nose of weakness andundevelopment; and it prop-erly retains its inward curvetill the age of puberty, whenthe… … Fig. 252.—The Mongolian. tal status of the individual and of the race to which he be-longs. A straight or an aquiline nose, projecting from therounded cheeks of a little child, is an absolute deformity, be-tokening a most unhealthy precociousness of mind and body.Unfortunately, examples of this…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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