. The hygiene of mind. child, there is, providedby Nature, a series of muscles in the face and eyes togive them outward expression. As an index of how thesubjective feelings are coming into existence it is essentialto study those muscles. They are a wonderful one is very small in size, but it has an enormousnumber of nerve fibres coming from the brain to set itin motion. There are, including those of the eye, twenty-five of them on each side of the face (Fig. 9 a). They sur-round the mouth, they cover part of the nose, they surroundthe orbit, and they exist in the brow and cheeks. A
. The hygiene of mind. child, there is, providedby Nature, a series of muscles in the face and eyes togive them outward expression. As an index of how thesubjective feelings are coming into existence it is essentialto study those muscles. They are a wonderful one is very small in size, but it has an enormousnumber of nerve fibres coming from the brain to set itin motion. There are, including those of the eye, twenty-five of them on each side of the face (Fig. 9 a). They sur-round the mouth, they cover part of the nose, they surroundthe orbit, and they exist in the brow and cheeks. Alongwith those, we must take into account the small musclesof the larynx, which produce sound and regulate eye also has its own muscular apparatus round it and EMOTIONS AND MUSCULAR EXPRESSION 85 inside it. The number and bulk of the nerves of motionwhich put into action and control those mind muscles,which altogether would weigh an ounce or two, is greaterand more bulky than the nerves which move the muscles. /:! -> Fig. 9.—This shows the Muscles of Expression—of WHICH there are FIFTY—IN THE FACE AND EyE, THE Mind Muscles, and their very abundantNerve Supply. The muscles are shaded, the nerves are black, a. Themuscles, b. The nerves. of the arm, which would weigh several pounds. Thosemotor nerves of expression arise directly in the brain, areconnected immediately with the mental part of the brain,and they pass from it at once to those muscles (Fig. 9 d). 86 THE HYGIENE OF MIND The marvellous part of their working is that they mustall work the one with the other ; in short, the power ofco-ordination—a co-ordination which must be so perfect,so subtly conducted and so quick, that every tone offeeling and every passion in their every degree must becapable of being expressed by them. They form the greatmind objective, as opposed to the mind subjective, whichis provided for in the brain itself. Every one knows thatin a young child there is no such thing as any po
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