46 EXPRESSION. 



one another, be taken, the one left in neglect, the 

 other subjected to educating influences, the differ- 

 ence of treatment will be likely to tell on the 

 moulding of the features. 



Expression of the Emotions. 



The element in expression of emotion, whether 

 by gesture or feature, which appears to me to be 

 the most important, has often been entirely over- 

 looked ; and although it seems to have been largely 

 present to the mind of Piderit and of Gratiolet, 1 

 yet the rationale has not been effectively ex- 

 pounded, and we see one of the most elaborate and 

 ingenious writers on the subject, Mr. Darwin, 

 throwing it altogether aside. 



I shall now try to put it in definite form. To 

 this end, I observe first, that words indicating posi- 

 tion and quantity represent ideas relating to both 

 the physical and mental world. Secondly, emotions 

 expressible by such words are indicated by the 

 attitudes, gestures, and movements of body ex- 

 pressed by the same words. Thirdly, the same 

 principle is applicable to movement of feature. 



I. For the sake of clearness, it may be well to 

 discuss the first of these propositions separately. 

 The words useful for our purpose by referring to 



1 Danvin, loc. cit., p. 6. 



