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Show 2-!0 ANGER. CHAP • • - . Rave it· yet as Louis XVI. said, when surrounded by . ' ' 1 " s a fierce mob, "Am I afraid? feel my pu ~e. . o a In an may intensely hate another, but until his bodily fran1o is affected, he cannot be said to be enraged. . Rage.-I have already had occasi~n to. treat of. th1s etnotion in the third chapter, when discussing th~ direct influence of the excited sensoritun on the body, In combination with the effects of habitually associated actions. llao-e exhibits itself in the most diversified manner. Th; heart and circulation are always affected; the face ~·edclens or becomes purple, with the vei.ns on the for~head and neck distended. The reddening of the skin has been observed with the copper-coloured Indians of South A1nerica,2 and even, as it is said, on the white cicatrices left by old wounds on negroes.3 ~onkeys !!.lso redden from passion. "\Vith one of my own Infants, under four rnonths old, I repeatedly observed that the first symptom of an approaching passion was the rushing of the blood into his bare scalp. On the other hand, tho action of the heart is sometimes so much impeded by great rage, that the eountenance beeomes pallid or livid,4 and not a few men with heart-disease have dropped down dead under this powerful emotion. The respiration is likewise affected; the chest he~ves, and the dilated nostrils quiver.5 As Tennyson writes, " sharp breaths · of anger puffed her fairy nostrils ont." 2 Renggor, Naturgesch. dor Saugethioro von Paraguay, 1830, s. ~. a Sir C. Bell, 'Anatomy of Expression,' p. 9G. On the other hnnd, Dr. Burgess ('Physiology of Blushing,' 183!), p. 31) speaks of tlto reddenin()' of a cicatrix in a negress as of the nature of 11 blush. 4 Mor:au and Gratiolet have discussed the colour of the face under tho influence of intense passion : seu the edit. of 1820 of Lavator, vol. iv. pp. 282 anu 300; and Gratiolet, 'De la Physionomie,' p. 34.5. . a Sir C. Bell ('Anatomy of Expression,' pp. 91, 107) has full~ discussed this subject. :Moreau remarks (in the edit. of 1820 of ' ~rt J>hysionomie, par G. J...~nvntrl',' vol. iv. p. 237), and quotes Portnl 111 C HAP. X. 241 licnc wo hn.vo u h cxpt· · i n n., "breathing ut von" g anco,'' and ' futning with anger." u ~rhe xcitod brain o·iv s strength to th 1uu ·cl and at the sru11e time n rgy to the will. 11he body is tnIn nly held erect r ad.y for instant action, but sometin1 s it is bent for war 1 towards the olfondino- person with tho limb m re or le s rigi l. The moufh is g l;Ortdly closed with firmn , showing fixed dot rmination, mul the te th are cl nched or ground together. nch gcstur s as the rai ing of the ar1n , with the fi. ts ·l nched, as if to strii~ the offender, are common. Few men in a gt·eat passion, and tellino· some one to boo-on · 0 0 ' can resi t .acting as if they intenJe l to strike r pu.' b the man VIolently away. 11he d sire, indeed, to strike often b comes o intolerably trong, that inanimat \ objects are struck or da~ h d to the ground; but the g stures frequently b orne altogether purpo:3eles r frantic. Young children, when in a violent rao-o roll b on the ground on their backs or bellies, screamino-kicking, scratching, or biting everything within reach. io it is, as I hear from 1\fr. Scott, with Hindoo childr n; and, as we have seen, with the young of the anthropolnorr hous apes. But the muscular system is oft n affected in a wholly c.lifl'orent way; for trembling is a frequent con.· qu ueo ·onflrmo.tion, that a Uunatic po.t.i ufs :wquiro pcrrna11 ntly xpitnd •11 nostrils, owing to the Jml)itual contraction of tho eJ vatnry nw~; ·1 ' l:i of th wings of the llO ·c. 'l'ho explanation hy Dr. Pitl rit (' 1\:Iimik 111111 I hytliognomik,' s ~) of tho di -t •nsion of tho Ho tril ·, narn ly, to allow fr ' br thing whil st the mouth is ·lo d anu tho t ' ·th l nchocl; do<•: not appear to Lc n n.rly t~o con t as that hy ir C. Bell, who nltrilmtcs it to the ympathy (i. e. ho.l)itual co-a ·tion) of all Uw r .. pimtory muscles. The nos tril:; of an angry man may b sc •u to b como dilated, although his mouth i op n. • 6 Mr. 'V dg wood, • n the Origin of Lo.ng Uitg ,' 1 GG, p. 76. II • also oLs rves that tho sound of l1ard breathing '' is r pres •nt l by th " yllablc~ pu.ff, ht~f!, wh~tJ, whence a huj]' is a fit of ill-t rupor.'' l~ |
