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. "Monkey, little merry fellow, Thou art nature's Punchinello: ORDER 2--GENUS 1-Intellectual Faculties, 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. |