272 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF. 



before seen one. At first they gazed at their own images 

 with the most steady surprise, and often changed their 

 point of view. They then approached close and protruded 

 their lips toward the image, as if to kiss it, in exactly the 

 same manner as they had previously done toward each 

 other, when first placed, a few days before, in the same 

 room. They next made all sorts of grimaces, and put 

 themselves in various attitudes before the mirror ; they 

 pressed and rubbed the surface ; they placed their hands 

 at different distances behind it ; looked behind it ; and 

 finally seemed almost frightened, started a little, became 

 cross, and refused to look any longer. 



When we try to perform some little action which is 

 difficult and requires precision, for instance, to thread a 

 needle, we generally close our lips firmly, for the sake, I 

 presume, of not disturbing our movements by breathing ; 

 and I noticed the same action in a young orang. The 

 poor little creature was sick, and was amusing itself by 

 trying to kill the flies on the window-panes with its 

 knuckles ; this was difficult as the flies buzzed about, and 

 at each attempt the lips were firmly compressed, and at 

 the same time slightly protruded. 



WEEPING OF MAN AND BKUTE. 



Expression Infants while young do not shed tears or 



of the Emo- • n i j j • 1 



tions weep, as is well known to nurses and medical 



page 153. men. This circumstance is not exclusively 

 due to the lachrymal glands being as yet incapable of se- 

 creting tears. I first noticed this fact from having acci- 

 dentally brushed with the cuff of my coat the open eye 

 of one of my infants, when seventy-seven days old, causing 

 this eye to water freely ; and, though the child screamed 

 violently, the other eye remained dry. or was only slightly 



