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has furnished them. Moreover, the veins are 

 swelled, especially those about the neck and 

 temples. All the visage is inflamed, on account of 

 the superabundance of blood carried up to it ; but 

 this redness resembles not that occasioned by desire 

 or love ; the movements are more hurried and more 

 violent; the step is heavy, irregular, impetuous." 



These descriptions of anger, as given by the 

 philosopher, the physiologist, and the actor, agree 

 in ascribing much of the expression of the emotion 

 to movement and the results of movement. 



Take Siddons' description. He speaks of choler 

 as expressed by energy in the movements of the 

 arms, grinding of the teeth, and agitation of the 

 hands. He tells us of the effect of other movements, 

 or arrest of movement, which he does not describe. 

 He speaks of the limbs as swelled with blood, and 

 the eyes as being congested ; these phenomena are 

 secondary results of spasm in the respiratory 

 muscles. Sir Charles Bell describes movements in 

 the face, and likewise refers to the effects of 

 arrested respiration. 



Anger in animals is in part expressed by show- 

 ing the teeth. Here we have the description of 

 certain movements, and results of movement, said 

 to be expressive of the emotion "anger." 



Sir Charles Bell,* in his sixth essay, when 

 speaking of laughter, says, "We have seen that 

 the muscles which operate upon the mouth are 

 distinguishable into two classes those which 

 surround and control the lips, and those which 



* Op, cit., p. 14G. 



