But one step further is required for the evolution of what we may call the human nose, and that is a solid foundation, a ridge of bone connecting it with the brow and separating the eyes from each other.  I believe that the completeness of this is a fair index of the comparative advancement of different races of men.  In the Greek ideal of a perfect face the profile forms a straight line from the top of the forehead to the tip of the nose.  This is the type of face which painters have delighted to give to the Virgin Mary; and, when looking at their Madonnas, one cannot help wondering whether they forgot that Mary was a Jewess.  According to the Hebrew ideal, a perfect nose was like “the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus” (Song of Solomon, vii. 4); but not even the ruins of that tower remain to help us to-day.  The Romans, no doubt, accepted the ideal of the Greeks aesthetically, but their destiny had given them a very different nose, and they ruled the world.

Here is the nose of Julius Caesar as a coin has preserved it for us.  I think that the outline is too straight for a typical Roman, but the deep dip under the brow and the downward point are characteristic.  Now compare the nose of another race which rules an empire greater than that of the Caesars.  Here is John Bull as Punch usually represents him.  It belongs to the same genus as that of the Roman.  The reason why this should be the nose of command is not easy to give with scientific precision, for we are dealing with the play of very subtle influences, so the man without imagination will no doubt scoff.  But I will take shelter under Darwin.  Dealing with the expression of pride he says, “A proud man exhibits his sense of superiority by holding his head and body erect.  He is haughty (haut), or high, and makes himself appear as large as possible.”  Again, “The arrogant man looks down on others”; and yet again, “In some photographs of patients affected by a monomania of pride, sent me by Dr. Crichton-Browne, the head and body were held erect and the mouth firmly closed.  This latter action, expressive of decision, follows, I presume, from the proud man feeling perfect self-confidence in himself.”

Darwin says nothing about the nose, but I believe that, by physiological sympathy, it cannot but take part in the habitual downward look upon inferior beings.  Darwin goes on to say that, “The whole expression of pride stands in direct antithesis to that of humility”; from which it follows, if my philosophy is sound, that the nose of Uriah Heep was turned upwards.