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Excerpt from New Physiognomy, or Signs of Character: As Manifested Through Temperament and External Forms, and Especially in "the Human Face Divine" If a perusal of these pages shall prove useful, by way of inducing the study of character, and encouraging to a better life; or if it shall prove suggestive in the way of calling out and developing more harmoniously body and brain, cultivating the faculties, and thereby improving and elevating the mind, beautifying and Spiritualizing the whole, the object of the work will be accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is a 2001 study of the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science.