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21.-IMITATION.

Very Large-Great talent for mimicry, caricaturing, or ridiculing. Large-Cleverness to imitate either the mechanical or the fine arts. Full-Respectable talent only for imitating things; not a mimic. Moderate-Inability to copy or act out; dislike to imitate any one. Small-Original and eccentric in manners; failure to copy.

Imitation, very large usually in mimics, drolls, &c., and must also be very large in the monkey tribes. [See cut 39.] Physiognomical expression-grimace, monkeyism, dandyism, &c.

Uses-to enable us to assimilate with others.
Abuses to ridicule the great and good.
Location-on each side of Benevolence.

"Monkey, little merry fellow,

Thou art nature's Punchinello:
Full of fun as Puck could be;
Harlequin might learn of thee!
Look now at his odd grimaces!
Saw you e'er such comic faces?
Now like learned judge sedate;
Now with nonsense in his pate.
There the little ancient man
Nurses as well as nurse he can!
Now good-bye, you merry fellow,
Nature's primest Punchinello!"

ORDER 2--GENUS 1-Intellectual Faculties,
Which perceive Existence and Physical Qualities.

22.-INDIVIDUALITY.

Very Large-Great talents for observation and critical judgment. Large-Acute perception of everything seen passing around us. Full-Desire to see and become acquainted; facility of acquiring. Moderate-Absence of the noticing, observing, and retentive powers. Small-Want of observation; very deficient in noticing minutiæ.

Individuality very large, combined with very large intellect and sentiment, gives desire for and appreciation of beauty, as shown in the great sculptor Canova, (cut 39.) This organ gives acuteness of perception and ready talents, an aptitude to seize and combine the useful and the beautiful in nature or art. This faculty, when very large, imparts a strength of judgment, and general talents of a highly useful character, and is large in most distinguished men.

Location at the bottom of forehead, between the eyebrows.

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No. 39. Commonly called the Wild Man of the Woods.

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No. 39. Precocious Boston Boy, with very large Form and Constructiveness. The line drawn through the eyes is to show the proportion of brain to the face, which line ought in all well balanced human heads, when so drawn, to show as much brain above it as face below it. See the Idiot.

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