Physiognomy : A practical and scientific treatise. Being a manual of instruction in the knowledge of the human physiognomy and organism, considered chemically, architecturally, and mathematically; embracing the discoveries of located traits, with their relative organs and signs of character, together with the three grand natural divisions of the human face (1881)
Stanton, Mary Olmstead · San Francisco : San Francisco News Company · leaf 60
e Esqui-maux, have so little ability in this direction as not to beable to calculate or comprehend anything beyond the numberof their fingers and toes. I think that mans superiorityover the brute creation is more marked in this respect thanin the matter of simple reason, which attribute many deny… … HERBERT SPENCER. The faculties of reason—Causality and Compar-ison— endow man withthe gift of abstract math-ematical ratiocination; inthis respect he is, per-haps, more distinguishedfrom the brutes than inany other manner, withthe exception of the fac-ulty of Speech, althoughthis is possessed by…
Phrenology · Physiognomy
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