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constitution of the nervous system, independently 

 of the will." 1 



I might have alluded more particularly to those 

 forms which depend not on the skeleton but on the 

 soft parts, giving the presence or absence of chisel- 

 ling to the features ; the term chiselling indicating 

 curves such as suggest a firm material moulded 

 into shape, as contrasted with those into which soft 

 pulp might gravitate. But it may well be answered 

 that such modelling being pleasant to the eye is 

 inherited by artificial selection, and that, though on 

 this account more common in the educated classes, 

 it may be largely present in the absence of grace 

 or culture of mind or heart, while in other instances 

 these latter may be present, and modelling of the 

 features absent. A fair argument might be sus- 

 tained that the circumstances favourable to moral 

 and mental selection are often coincident with 

 those favourable to physical selection ; and that, 

 apart from this, it is natural to associate the plea- 

 sant in mind with the pleasant in body, forms 

 noble on account of mere physical harmonies with 

 nobility of moral description, even though the two 

 things may not be associated in the external world. 

 Yet there are probably few who will doubt that if 

 two children of the same parents, closely resembling 



1 Darwin, Expression of the Emotions, p. 28. 



