The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1924
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MAN AND HIS THREE FACES markable than that anthropologists and palaeontologists should now be forced, at every point, to recognise the importance of the Three Faces of Mankind : seen in the poet's vision, but already perpetuated in the story of Shem, of Ham, and of Japheth. As some one said recently, that story is at least ' quite a good myth/ And there is always a point of view, other than the ' scientific,' that is worth consideration. If we examine closely, and from a certain angle, the Louvre version of the Virgin of the Rocks, already commented on (PI. XXVIII) we can see, concealed in the folds of the Angel's robes, the form of an Ape. Behind the Angel, and with his back turned from the light, is a gloomy and gigantic head and torso, emerging from the soil : ' da mezzo il petto uscia fuor della ghiaccia ' This is ' Lo imperador del doloroso regno ' on whose head were the Three Faces. [ 117]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18025110_0150.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
