May we not hail this as one of the beautiful harmonious truths which
spring up from time to time, the deeper the subject is investigated, to
attest the accuracy of the system? for where by a careful deduction, _à
posteriori_, we discover the common property is, there, _à priori_, we
perceive it must be in order to act in concert with the _special_
properties exhibited by the profile.
To entitle a Nose to rank among the Cogitatives, it should be above the
medium between the very full broad Nose, and the very sharp thin Nose.
The observation is to be confined to the parts _below_ the bridge; what
may be the properties of breadth _above_ the bridge we have not at
present observed satisfactorily. It may be remarked as a general rule,
that the further a Nose recedes from sharpness the better.
We have said that minds of every bias are found accompanying Cogitative
Noses, and this necessarily; for the tendency of the cogitations will be
determined by the profile. Thus the Cogitative acts in concert with the
other Noses, making useful those qualities which would, otherwise, for
ever slumber unknown. The very best Nose in profile may be utterly
worthless from defect of breadth; for, as before observed, no talent is
of any use without Cogitative power; and every Nose, having breadth as
well as length (profile), must be submitted to the test of this Class
before a judgment is pronounced upon it. Being, however, anxious to
simplify the subject, we have not, in our notices of Classes I. and II.,
remarked specially on the Cogitative part of their formation, and have
reserved until this chapter the instances of those Classes partaking
largely of Class III.
In the present brief sketch of the science, however, we shall not
attempt to distinguish our instances under the heads of distinct
profiles, as, Romano-Cogitative, Greco-Cogitative, &c.; but class
together all the compounds partaking sufficiently of the Cogitative form
to entitle them to a place among Cogitative Noses.
The following persons have Noses which largely partake of this important
formation:—
THEOLOGIANS.
Wickliff.
Luther.
Cranmer.
Knox.
Tyndale.
Fuller.
Hall, Bishop
Tillotson.
Baxter.
Bunyan.
Hooker.
Taylor, Jeremy
South.
Warburton.
Paley.
Stillingfleet.
Chalmers.
Priestley.
Wesley.
Hall, Robert
SCIENTIFIC MEN.
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