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re will be only grimace. The hand is simply another expression of the face. The face gives the hand its significance. Hand movements without facial expression would be purely automatic. The face has the first word, the hand completes the sense. There are eighty-one movements of the hand impossible to the face; hence, without the hand, the face cannot express everything. The hand is the detailed explanation of what the face has sought to say. There are expressions of the hand consonant with the facial traits, and others dissonant: this is the beautiful. The weak hand and the strong face are the sign of impotence. The weak hand and the strong face are the sign of perfidy. The tones of the voice vary according to the expression of the face. The face must speak, it must have charm. In laughing, the face is eccentric; a sombre face is concentric. The face is the mirror of the soul because it is the most impressionable agent, and consequently the most faithful in rendering the impressions of the soul. Not only may momentary emotions be read in the expression of the features, but by an inspection of the conformation of the face, the aptitude, thoughts, character and individual temperament may be determined. The difference in faces comes from difference in the configuration of profiles. There are three primitive and characteristic profiles, of which all others are only derivations or shades. There is the upright, the concave and the convex profile. Each of these genera must produce three species, and this gives again the accord of _nine_. These different species arise from the direction of the angles, as also from the position of the lips and nose. Uprightness responds to the perpendicular profile; chastity, to the concave; sensualism, to the convex. Let it be understood that we derogate in no way from the liberty of the man who remains always master of his will, his emotions and his inclinations. A criterion of the face is indispensable to the intelligent physiognomist, and as the lips and nose have much to do with the expression of the face, we offer an unerring diagnosis in the three following charts: Criterion of the Profile of the Lips. SPECIES. 1 3 2 II 1-II 3-II 2-II Ecc.-conc. Norm.-conc. Conc.-conc. III 1-III 3-III 2-III
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