"Bertillon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that each man's track must have an individuality about it quite as remarkable as the finger-prints investigated by Galton and Bertillon. The blacks could even tell a man's name and many other things about him, solely from his tracks—how, it is of course impossible for me to say. I have often known my blacks to follow a man's track over hard rocks, where even a disturbed leaf proved an infallible clue, yielding ...
— The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont - as told by Himself • Louis de Rougemont
... hand or foot or ear is enough to distinguish him from all other men, it is impossible to believe that the mask of his mind, the very imprint, form and pressure of his soul should be less distinctive. Just as Monsieur Bertillon's whorl-pictures of a thumb afford overwhelming proofs of a man's identity, so it is possible from Shakespeare's writings to establish beyond doubt the main features of his character and the chief incidents of his life. The time for random assertion about Shakespeare ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris |
