New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 962.—Terrok and Astonishuient. Fig. 963.—Rage and Feae. face the danger which menaces him nor the power to makeliis anger felt. He gnashes his teeth in impotent rage. In the next figure, which is from Sir Charles Bells Anat-omy of Expression, the fear is mingled with wonder, and the 28 650 EXERCISES IN EXPRESSION. imagination is busy with some distant but approaching objectof terror. Fear is an essentially mean feeling, and there can be no dio--ni
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fig. 962.—Terrok and Astonishuient. Fig. 963.—Rage and Feae. face the danger which menaces him nor the power to makeliis anger felt. He gnashes his teeth in impotent rage. In the next figure, which is from Sir Charles Bells Anat-omy of Expression, the fear is mingled with wonder, and the 28 650 EXERCISES IN EXPRESSION. imagination is busy with some distant but approaching objectof terror. Fear is an essentially mean feeling, and there can be no dio--nity in its expression. The eyeball is uncovered, the eyes starewildly, the action of the lungs is disturbed, and there is aconvulsive gasping for breath, with an inflation of the nostril,a dropping of the jaw, and a trembling of the lips. The. Fig. 964.—Wonder and Terror, cheeks are hollow, the aspect pale, and the hair lifted by thecreeping of the skin and the action of the occipito-frontalismuscle stands erect. As the object of fear approaches, hetrembles, turns pale, has a cold sweat on his face, and in pro-portion as the imagination has less room to range in, and thedanger is more distinctly visible, the expression j:)artakes moreof bodily pain. The scream of fear is heard, the eyes startforward, the lips are drawn wide, the hands are clenched, andthe expression strictly animal and indicative of such fear as iscommon to brutes. No wonder that fear, in a man, is sodespised and courage so honored, the world over. EXPRESSION IN ANIMALS. 651 EXPRESSION IN ANIMALS. Spitefulness and envy are almost as plainly expressed infig. 965 as they could be on the human face ; while fig. 966indicates a calm, collected, and watchful but courageous dis-position, more inclined to bite than to bark or growl.
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