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Nasology: or, hints towards a classification of noses / By Eden Warwick.

  • Warwick, Eden, pseud.
Date:
1848
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Nasology: or, hints towards a classification of noses / By Eden Warwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    our investigations “were, therefore, commenced by endeavouring to discover whether these forms of Nose characterized any, and what, mental properties. In order to do this with accuracy, it was absolutely necessary still to keep the mind unacquainted with the system of any other writers, if such there were, lest it should unconsciously imbibe preconceptions and hints which would render its independent researches open to the suspicion of bias. We felt that if the characteristics attributed by us to Noses, after long and extensive observation, corresponded with those of any other writer, a powerful corroboration of our views would thus be gained. It may happen, therefore, and it is hoped it will be so, that we may sometimes appear to have plagiarized from other physiognomists, and to have adopted their views; but this correspondence must, nevertheless, be accepted as a further proof of the accuracy of our honest independent labours. It was impossible, however, amidst much multifarious reading, to keep the mind, latterly, wholly ignorant that some mental characteristics B 2
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