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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... v. TYPICAL ENGLISH MEN AND W0M3K A T bottom the essential thing in a country is man. -*-* Since my arrival I have made a collection of types, and I class them with those which I had collected last year. As the result of experience, the best method in my eyes is always that of artists and of naturalists; to note each face or very salient expression, follow its shades, its debasements, and its combinations; to verify its repetition in several individuals; to separate in this way the leading characteristic traits, comparing, interpreting, and classifying them. Painters and romance writers act thus by instinct, when by means of some personages they furnish us with an epitome of their era and of their society. Botanists and zoologists act thus on system when, choosing some plants or some animals whose characters are well marked, they exhibit to us in five or six representative types, all the species of a class. Seated on a bench in a public walk, or stationed in the morning at the outlet from a railway-station, French eyes, accustomed to French physiognomies very quickly perceive differences; the memory keeps them in view, although the intelligence cannot, as yet, clearly comprehend them. One continues to do this daily at table, in a railway-carriage, in an omnibus, at an evening party, during a, visit, in the city, in the country. At the end of some days certain new types, rare in France, common here, arise and stand forth; week after week, they become distinct, acquire completeness, call forth questions and answers, fit into one another, and end by forming a whole. Now, consider that in order to describe them it is often necessary to exhibit them in all their prominence--that is to say, in their excess, and that the excess is never the...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... v. TYPICAL ENGLISH MEN AND W0M3K A T bottom the essential thing in a country is man. -*-* Since my arrival I have made a collection of types, and I class them with those which I had collected last year. As the result of experience, the best method in my eyes is always that of artists and of naturalists; to note each face or very salient expression, follow its shades, its debasements, and its combinations; to verify its repetition in several individuals; to separate in this way the leading characteristic traits, comparing, interpreting, and classifying them. Painters and romance writers act thus by instinct, when by means of some personages they furnish us with an epitome of their era and of their society. Botanists and zoologists act thus on system when, choosing some plants or some animals whose characters are well marked, they exhibit to us in five or six representative types, all the species of a class. Seated on a bench in a public walk, or stationed in the morning at the outlet from a railway-station, French eyes, accustomed to French physiognomies very quickly perceive differences; the memory keeps them in view, although the intelligence cannot, as yet, clearly comprehend them. One continues to do this daily at table, in a railway-carriage, in an omnibus, at an evening party, during a, visit, in the city, in the country. At the end of some days certain new types, rare in France, common here, arise and stand forth; week after week, they become distinct, acquire completeness, call forth questions and answers, fit into one another, and end by forming a whole. Now, consider that in order to describe them it is often necessary to exhibit them in all their prominence--that is to say, in their excess, and that the excess is never the...
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