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�of course, the observing world, for it is immaterial what those who do not observe, and cannot discriminate, think of anybody.

Many people are aware that when any dominant position absorbs the whole being, the countenance, manner, gestures and expressions will involuntarily reveal it. But they seem to think that if they are agitated by a variety of passions and emotions the multiplicity will raise such confusion in the countenance as to produce concealment. But to the analyst this is not so. He knows that passions combine in groups, and after a little practice, he can infer from the countenance, manner and voice of the individual, not only the peculiar passions which are harbored by him, but the degree of activity in which each exists in the character. By these external indications of character, and particularly by the countenance, we are enabled at first sight to form a true conception of the individual in the main. And however little we may know upon the subject of physiognomy, we are seldom deceived in our impressions.

This could not be so, unless there was a true record kept by the features, of the idiosyncrasies of their possessor. It is true that persons sometimes make mistakes in judging. But those who make such mistakes are chiefly of the class who are never acquainted with their