Fowler's New illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred engravings, together with the chart and character of ... as marked by ... / by Lorenzo N. Fowler.

  • Lorenzo N. Fowler
Date:
1891
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Credit: Fowler's New illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred engravings, together with the chart and character of ... as marked by ... / by Lorenzo N. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rapidity with force in laughing, combine them in character. One of the greatest workers I ever employed, I hired just because he laughed heartily, his giggles being rapid and loud. But a colored domestic who laughed very rapidly, but ughtlt, took a great many steps to do almost nothing, and though she worked fast, accomplished little. Vulgar persons always laugh vulgarly, and refined persons show refine- ment in their laugh. Those who ha, ha right out, unreservedly, have no cunning, and are open-hearted in everything ; while those ' who suppress laughter, and try to control their countenances in it, are more or less secretive. Those who laugh with their mouths cldsed are non-committal; while those who throw it wide open are unguarded and unequivocal in character. Those who, suppressing laughter for a while, burst forth volcano-like, have strong characteristics, but are well governed, yet violent when they give way to their feelings. Then there is the intellectual laugh, the love laugh, the horse laugh, the philoprogenitive laugh, the friendly laugh, and many other kinds of laugh, each indicative of corresponding mental developments. 20.-THE MODE OF SHAKING HANDS Also expresses character. Thus, those who give a tame and loose hand, and shake lightly, have a cold, if not heartless and selfish dis- position, rarely sacrificing much for others, are probably conservatives and lack warmth and soul. But those who grasp firmly, and shake heartily, have a corresponding whole-souledness of character, are hos- pitable, and will sacrifice business to friends ; while those who bow low when shake hands, add deference to friendship, and are easily led, for good or bad, by friends. y 21.-MOUTH AND EYES PECULIARLY EXPRESSIVE OF CHARACTER eW?,7 m°Tth differS u°m every 0ther’ and indicatcs a coincident hv Whde c if m0u^.express a corresponding quantity of mental- y, while small ones indicate a lesser amount. A coarsely formed mouth indicates power, while one finely formed indicates exquisite susceptibilities. Hence small, delicately-formed mouths indicate only common minds, with very fine feelings and much perfection of char acter. Whenever the muscles about the mouth are distinct the char- acter is correspondingly positive, and the reverse. Those who open chased111011 hHWld° r fre(]Uently’ thereby evince an open soul whil* cl^ed mouths, unless to hide deformed teeth, are proportio^ And thus of the eyes. In traveling west in 1RT7 . , • * e™ Xorki this scamp came in, afid