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PHYSIOGNOMY.
PHRENOLOGY is a branch of Physiognomy in the proper sense of the term. The first designation Phrenology got from its founders was A System of Physiognomy.
It was only after its introduction in England that it received from an Englishman the name of Phrenology. Phren, in Greek, means the Diaphragm, which was supposed to be the seat of the Mind, and logos makes it a legitimate title for Mind Science, or at least as good as any of the Greek derivatives. Physiognomy, in reality, means the outward appearance of the whole body—attitude, gait, height, size, and all other appearances, including those of the head. Popularly considered, Physiognomy is confined to the features of the face, and therefore it is incomplete, a fractional part of the whole, and as a substitute for the whole utterly unreliable. It has been well said that the telltale body is all tongues,
but the revelation given by one or two tongues is not to be taken for the revelation of the whole. Each tongue tells its own part of the great truth, but the chief tongues are those of the head, for these united bring us from empiricism to science. The observations of the bodily system are all empirical, but certainly not unworthy of the