Allan Martin and Henry Parkes

I shall never forget the first time I saw this extraordinary man ... I saw a face full of intelligence, coarse in feature but striking, and in many respects noble. It was in every sense of the word a massive head. The hair was very white, even then, and flowing; his eyes were restless under bushy eyebrows; the nose somewhat big, and nostrils wide and large. The mouth was concealed by a white moustache, and a long white beard reached down below the opening of the waistcoat. The forehead denoted much power and intelligence, and seemed to me unusually high. I asked an attendant who it was, and he looked at me in amazement. 'You don't know Sir Henry Parkes when you see him? Well, you must be a new chum!' was his reply

Art · Art history · Face (sociological concept) · Head (geology) · Physics · Power (physics) · White (mutation) · Australian History and Society · Geology · Philosophy