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Show 366 CONCLUDING REMARKS CHAP. XIV. s1on; our sufferings are thus mitigated and our pleasures increased; and mutual good feeling is thus strengthened. The movements of expression give vividness and energy to our spoken words. They reveal the thoughts and intentions of others more truly than do words, which may be falsified. Whatever an1ount of truth the so-called science of physiognomy may contain, appears to depend, as Haller long ago remarked,' on different persons bringing into frequent use different facial muscles, according to their dispositions; the development of these muscles being perhaps thus increased, and the lines or furrows on the face, due to their habitual contraction, being thus rendered deeper and more conspicuous. The free expression by outward signs of an emotion intensifies it. On the other hand, the repression, as far as this is possible, of all outward signs softens our emotions.6 He who gives way to violent gestures will increase his rage; he who does not control the signs of fear will experience fear in a greater degree ; and he who remains passive when overwhelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering elasticity of mind. These results follow partly from the intimate relation which exists between almost all the emotions and their outward manifestations; and partly from the direct influence of exertion on the heart, and consequently on the brain. Even the simulation of an emotion tends to arouse it in our minds. Shakespeare, who from his wonderful knowledge of the human mind ought to be an excellent judge, sttys :- "Is it. not monstro~s that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, • Quoted by Moreau, in his edition ofLavatcr, 1820, tom. iv. p. 211. :, Gratiolet ('De la Physionomie,' 1865, p. 66) insists on the truth of this conclusion. • CHAP. XIV. AND SUMMARY. ~ouhl force his soul so to his own conceit, 1Th at, .f rom. her workinO' , all h1' s vi.s age wanu'd . ears m hl ~yes, distraction in's asp ct, ' A ?roken voice, and his whole function suitin With forms to his conceit? And all for nothin~ I" o• 3(37 IIamlet, act ii. sc. 2. . . W? have seen that the study of the theor of explres: Ion hcoufirms ~o a certain limited extent ~e con£ e u.s ion t at man Is de1..1 Ve d f rom some lower anitnal or~fi and .supports the belief of the specific or sub~ peci c unity of the several races. but as f: JUdgment serv s such fi . ' ar as my We h ' con . rmation wa hardly needed. I ave ~I o seen that expres ion in itself or the ~nguag~ o th~ moti ns, a it has sometit~es beon called.' lS certtnnly of importan ·e for th lf' . f mankind T d e w are o . . . o. un erstand, as far as is po ibl th sbo tuh c e or on. oo· In of the variou . expres t.o n whJ.C h ' ma e t e ourl.y seen on the faces of tl1 men around us noyt o mention our domesticated animal OUO'ht t ' much interest for us · From th se s'e verb aI caou speos ssess may conclude that the philosophy of our sub. t' hwe well deserved the att ntion which it has already~ec . ads from 8 evera1 exce ll ent obs rvers and th t 't dre ce1 ve fll f 1 · ' a 1 eserves s 1 • urt ler attentiOn, e .. ~p cially fronl any abl h . legist. e P ys1o- |