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New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." (1889)

Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York : Fowler & Wells · leaf 470

An illustration from New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine.", 1889, leaf 470 — aw-ing of the Patagonian craiiium (fig. 580) shows a more favor-able development,thougli still a lowone. The breadthof the base of thehead and the pre-dominance of theback - head overthe frontal or in-tellectual regions,indicate more ani-mal power andbodily vigor thaneither intelligencec^i or moral… … 464 NATIONAL TYPES cranium and the configuration of the body, but the chano-eithus produced are confined within comparatively narrowlimits and are incapable of obliterating racial distinctions.The negro of to-day, as we see him in New York or NewOrleans, does not difier essentially from the negro…

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