An attempt to establish physiognomy upon scientific principles.

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1817
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Credit: An attempt to establish physiognomy upon scientific principles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    have forsaken the predaceous organ, and it re- mains with the eyebrows to determine what shall be done. If they ascend out of the way—if the whole faculties of the mind turn their back —then the wretch is abandoned to fear; but if the eyebrows, in this emergency, descend to- wards the pupil, and take the management of the entering rays—if the intellectual faculties take the part of the predaceous organ—then the whole man yields himself up to unbridled fury. This shows how little adequate is human wisdom of itself to regulate human conduct. As long as the eyelids duly cover the eyeball, a descent of the eyebrows merely indicates a proper combination of moral and intellectual, in the predaceous activity—of moral, in virtue of the eyelids, of intellectual, in virtue of the eyebrows. Size and colour are qualities of eyebrows partly natural, and must therefore point to natural qualities of mind. Situation and shape may be partly acquired, and must therefore in some measure, indicate how the intellectual faculties, and the predacious tendency of the L 1