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Show 242 ANGEH. CHAP. X. of extren1e rage. 'fhe paralysed lips then refuse to obey the will "and the voice sticks in the throat;" 7 or it is rende'r ed loud, harsh, and discordant. If there be n1uch and rapid speaking, the mouth froths. _The ~air sometimes bristles; but I shall return to th1s subject in another chapter, when I treat of the mingled emotions of rage and terror. There is in 1nost_ cases a strono·ly-marked frown on the forehead; for th1s follows from 0 the sense of anything displeasing or difficult, too·ether with concentration of mind. But sometimes 0 the brow, instead of being much eontracted and lowered, rom11ins smooth, with the glaring eyes kept widely open. The eyes are always bright, or 1nay, as I-Iomer expresses it, glisten with fire. They are sometilnes bloodshot, and are said to protrude from their socketsthe result, no doubt, of the head being gorged with blood, as shown by the veins being distended. According to Gratiolet,8 the pupils are always contracted in rage, and I hear from Dr. Crichton Browne that this is the case in the fierce delirium of 1neningitis ; but the movements of the iris under the influence of the different emotions is a very obscure subject. Shakspeare sums up the chief characteristics of rage as follows:- ,, In peace there's nothing so becomes a n1an, As modest stillness and humility; nut when the blast of war blows in our car~, rrhen imitate the action of the tiger : Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, rrhen lend the eye a terrible aspect; Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit 'l'o his full height ! On, on, you noblest English." llenry V., act iii. sc. 1. ------------------- 7 Sir 0. Bell ('Anatomy of Expression,' p. 95) has some cxcellelit remarks on the expression of rage. s 'De In I 'hysioaomie,' 1865, p. 34:6. CJJAP . .... . ANGEU. 1'he lips are s m tilnes protruded during rage in a 1nannor~ the moaning of whieh I do not un l rstand, uu!o s It depend on our deseent fron1 some ape-lik animal. Instance have been observed, not only with Euro1 cans, but with the Australians and Hindoos. The li1~s, ~owcver, arc much more comn1only retracted, ;~w. gnnn1ng r cl_cnch d teeth being thu exposed. Ihis ha been 11 t1ccd Ly almost ev ry 0110 who has written on o .. rprcssion.9 Tho appearance is as if th teeth were uncovered, ready for seizing or tearing an enemy, though there may be no intention of actino· in this manner. JUr. Dyson Lacy has seen this grinnin~ ex pre siou with tho Au tralians, wh n quarrelling, an l H~ lws Gaika with the Kafirs of South Africa. Dicken::;, 1 o in speaking of an atrocious n1urd rer who had just lw -.n eaught, and wa surrounded by a furious mob, des rib • · " the peor leas jumping up one behin l another, snarlj u(r " with their tooth, and making at hiin like wild bea t ._t;; Every one who has had much to do with young childn~u nn1st have seen how naturally they take to bitino· when . • b' 1n a passion. It eems as instinctive in thmn as in young crocodiles, who snap their little jaws as soon as they merge fro1n tho egg. A grinning expression and the protrusion of the lips appear sometimes to go together. A close observer say::; 9 ir . B '11, 'Anntomy of Expression,' p. 177. Gratiol t (Do la Pltys. p. 3G9) says, '' 1 s dent::~ so dccouvr n t, et imiteut ymboliqtH;,. mcnt l'n tion de dcehircr et de monlr : · If, inst au fusing th va g ue t ('rm symboliquem _Jd, mtiol thad '-aid that th n 'tion waB a remnant of a habit a quired dm·iug prim val timc·s wl1 '11 onr semi-human prog •nitors fought together with their t oth, like gorillas and orangs at tho pres nt day, ho 'vould have 1J ·n more int Uigibl . Dr. Pid 'rit ( l\fimik,' c·e., s. 8~) also sp aks of the rctmcti n of' the upp ·r lip during l'Ug ·. Iu an cngravio,..,. of one of Hogarth's woutlcrfnl pictur s, pu '. iou is r 'prc::;entcd in the plainest mann 1' by the open glaring eye::;, frowui11g for h ead, and xpo ·ed grinning teeth. 10 ' liver Twist,' vol. iii. p. 2-L). |