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.
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