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not actuated with any voluntary motion : the skin 

 of the whole Face participates of motion, which 

 being voluntary, does necessarily imply the use of 

 Muscles, by whose benefit those motions should be 

 orderly and significantly performed " (p. 97, No. ii.). 



" But in the face, it hath a publique and locall 

 motion that is most Emphatically significant, where- 

 in the perturbations of the Mind discover themselves, 

 being moved in the Face by the streight annexion 

 to Muscles, which are the organs of voluntary 

 motion ; for, Nature would have so ordered, that by 

 the benefit of certaine Muscles working under the 

 skin, and affecting the parts of the Face, (being all 

 of them furnished in their originals with Nerves 

 from the third Conjugation of Nerves that come 

 from the Braine) Man with his very Countenance 

 alone, should expressse all his Will, Mind, and Desire, 

 when at any time it happened to be inconvenient 

 or unlawful to open it in words at length " (p. 101). 



"All the outward expressions we have or can 

 make, are performed by motion, and therefore 

 signifie the affections of the mind, which are 

 motions ; the moving of the instruments and parts, 

 answering in a kind of semblance and representa- 

 tive proportion, to the motions of the mind " (p. 4). 



"Now the Braine is the Universall organ of 

 voluntarie motion, the great mysterie whereof is 

 thus ordered. The Braine commandeth as soone as 

 it hath judged whether the thing is to be avoided 

 or prosecuted " (p. 13).. 



" You shall find in it that which I use to call the 

 clock -work of the Head, or the Springs and inward 



