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New physiognomy (1867)

Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 390

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le forms a beautiful oval, or ratherellipse, varying somewhat in the proportion of its two diam-eters, some nations having rounder and others more elongatedheads. ~- We make use of Campers lines without by any means admitting hispreposterous claims in regard to their sufficiency as a measure of… … The front view (fig. 4 79) shows still more satisfactorily thebeautiful proportions of a well-formed Caucasian skull, withits magnificent intellectual and moraldevelopments. It will be seen, far-ther on, how widely the crania of theother races differ from this in everyaspect. The average internal…

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