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Show 254 UONTEMP'l\ r , CHAP. XI. CIIAPTER XI. DrsDAIN- CoNTEM:PT- DrsGUST- GuiLT- PRIDE, E'l'C.HELPLESSNESS- pATIENCE- AFFIRMATION AND NEGATION. Contempt, scorn and disuain, variously expressed - Derisive smile -Gestures expressive of contempt- Disgust- Guilt, deceit, pride, &c.-Helplessness or impotence-Patience-ObstinacyShr~ gging the shoulders common to most of the races of manSigns of affirmation and negation. ~CORN and disdain can hardly be distinguished from contempt, excepting that they imply a rather more angry frame of 1nind. Nor can they be clearly distinguished from the feelings discussed in the last chapter undc.:r the terms of sneering and defiance. Disgust is a sensation rather 1nore distinct in it~ nature, and refers to so1nething revolting, prin1arily in relation to the sense of taste, as actually perceived or vividly imagined; and secondarily to anything which causes a similar feeling, through the sense of smell, touch, and even of eyesight. Nevertheless, extreme contempt, or as it is often called loathing contempt, hardly differs fron1 disgust. These several conditions of the mind are, therefore, nearly related; and each of them may be exhibited in many different ways. Some writers have insisted chiefly on one mode of expression, and others on a different n1ode. Fron1 this circumstance M. Lemoine has argued 1 that their descriptions are not trustworthy. But we shall immediately see that it is natural that tho feelings which we have here to consider should be ex- 1 ' De la Pllysionomie ct la Parole,' 1865, p. 89. |