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New physiognomy (1867)

Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 287

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ntrast here the absurd head-dresses of Mrs. Gore (fig. 381)and Georgiana Cavendish (fig. 382) with the natural, flowingtresses of the Greek girl (fig. 379) and Mrs. Mo watt Ritchie(fig. 380), We do not object to art, but it should co-operate 280 THE HAIR AND BEARD with nature, instead of… … originating in a cross between the native American Indiansof Brazil and the negroes imported from Africa, have perhapsthe most singular hair in the world, it being a mean betweenthe long, straight, stiff hair of the Indian and the curly hairof the negro. It rises almost perpendicularly from the…

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