266 . PHYSICAL EXPEESSION. 



we form an idea of its susceptibility to inhibition 

 of movements. 



It would be an interesting and curious inquiry 

 to analyze and describe the national modes of ex- 

 pression and gesticulation. I was much interested 

 one day -to meet in a railway carriage an English- 

 man, an Irishman, an Italian, and a Frenchman, 

 engaged in animated conversation ; the gesticula- 

 tions of each were different, and characteristic of 

 the respective countries of their birth. 





