It is narrated of Napoleon that he was a practical Nasologist, and influenced in his choice of men by the size of their Noses. “Give me,” said he, “a man with a good allowance of Nose. Strange as it may appear, when I want any good headwork done, I choose a man—provided his education has been suitable—with a long Nose.” Footnote 22: D’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation, B. I. Footnote 23: The physiognomy of M. Ledru-Rollin, the Communist leader, is said, by an eye-witness, to be “without one redeeming quality—insolent, conceited, reckless, headstrong, cruel.” Footnote 24: We trust no one will misunderstand these observations, but give us credit for making them sincerely and with all reverence; firmly convinced as we are, that if the system is true, it _must_, like all other sciences, furnish its quota of proofs of design in the universe. Footnote 25: The use of this word would often save the quibble, whether a system is entitled to be called a science, or only a theory or hypothesis. Thus both the advocates and the opponents of phrenology or geology might agree to call them noögenisms. For this reason we apply the word here to geology, which some persons assert to be more than a mere hypothesis, while others deny its claim to be called a science. At present we claim for Nasology no higher title than that of a mental deduction from facts or noögenism. Footnote 26: Longum, difficile est deponere amorem. Footnote 27: Nov. Org., Sec. VII. Footnote 28: How different is the language of the disciple from that of the master! Bacon himself says, “Read not to contradict nor to believe (_i. e._ for facts), but to _weigh and consider_.” Footnote 29: Explanations, 2nd Edit. p. 78. Footnote 30: Nov. Organ. Footnote 31: Ibid. Pt. 1, Sect. 7. Footnote 32: Historical and Critical Essays, vol. ii. The reader who wishes to form an estimate of the sordid views of the utilitarian school, had better peruse the whole of Macaulay’s Essay on Bacon. Footnote 33: Essays, vol. ii. p. 386–403. Footnote 34: Filum Labyrinthi. Footnote 35: New Atlantis. Footnote 36: Lucretius. Rerum Natura. Bacon would seem to have had this passage again in his mind, when he described Plato as “a man of a sublime genius, _who took a view of everything as from a high rock_.”—_De Augmentis_, sec. 5. Footnote 37: Essay on Truth. Footnote 38: Filum Labyrinthi, Part 1. Footnote 39: Earthly and heavenly are not here used in the New Testament sense, for sinful and holy, but in the Old Testament sense; earthly, for things pertaining to the body formed of the dust of the ground, and heavenly, for things pertaining to the mind, the breath of God. Footnote 40: Macaulay’s Essay on Bacon, vol. ii., p. 426. Footnote 41: _i. e._ Post Christum. Footnote 42: