The practical phrenologist and recorder and delineator of the character and talents of [blank], as marked by [blank] : a compendium of phreno-organic science (1869)
Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Boston : O.S. Fowler · leaf 73
O THE ORGANIC CONDITJONS their heads backward and upward, but always forward; and logicalspeakers move their heads in a straight line, usually forward, towardtheir audience; while vain speakers hold their heads backward.Hence it is a poor sign to stand so straight as to lean backward, for itshows… … No. 139.—Washington Irving. the upper portion of the forehead to hang forward, and draws in thechin, as in Franklin, Webster, and other great thinkers. A coxcombonce asking a philosopher, What makes you hang your head downso ? why dont you hold it up as I do ? was answered : Look atthat field of…
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