274 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF. 



A New Zealand chief "cried like a child 



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because the sailors spoiled his favorite cloak 



by powdering it with flour." I saw in Tierra del Fuego 



a native who had lately lost a brother, and who alternately 



cried with hysterical violence, and laughed heartily at 



anything which amused him. With the civilized nations 



of Europe there is also much difference in the frequency 



of weeping. Englishmen rarely cry, except under the 



pressure of the acutest grief ; whereas, in some parts of 



the Continent, the men shed tears much more readily and 



freely. 



The insane notoriously give way to all their emotions 



with little or no restraint ; and I am informed by Dr. J: 



Crichton Browne that nothing is more characteristic of 



simple melancholia, even in the male sex, than a tendency 



to weep on the slightest occasions, or from no cause. 



They also weep disproportionately on the occurrence of 



any real cause of grief. The length of time during which 



some patients weep is astonishing, as well as the amount 



of tears which they shed. 



The Indian elephant is known sometimes 

 to weep. Sir E. Tennent, in describing those 

 which he saw captured and bound in Ceylon, says some 

 "lay motionless on the ground, with no other indication 

 of suffering than the tears which suffused their eyes and 

 flowed incessantly." Speaking of another elephant he 

 says : " When overpowered and made fast, his grief was 

 most affecting ; his violence sank to utter prostration, 

 and he lay on the ground, uttering choking cries, with 

 tears trickling down his cheeks." 



