Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1879 — The Theory for Noses. [ARTICLE]

The Theory for Noses.

As the forehead grew outward with increasing brain-growth, and as the -jaws retreated backward with decreasing usage, the nasal bone and cartilage were probably pushed forward, as it were, from above and dragged downward from below. These two movements, slowly continued in the plastic development of the organ for many generations, would finally produce just such a shape as that with which we are now familiar. Of course, it must not be supposed that there was ever any actual physical strain, such as would result from any attempt to push or pull a negro’s nose at one trial into the Aryan mold; all that the theory demands is a slightly altered mode of growth to meet the altered circumstances during many thousands of years. The molecules which would once have naturally arranged themselves in one order would later be driven by slightly different attractions and pressures to arrange themselves in another order. And thus it would finally result that man, when compared with the higher

apes, would possess a human nose, and that this nose, short and flat in the , small-browed prognathous negroe, would become relatively large and prominent in the straight-browed, small-mouthed, and delicate-featured Aryan. So that, in the last resort, the nose must be regaided as a product of two other factors, not as a thing in itself. It really depends, if ottr theory be correct, upon the joint action of the increased brain-cover and the decreased jawbone. —The New Quarterly Review.