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from brown; and all eyes without pigment, even 

 the purest grays, have some blueness. 



Brown eyes express animal passions rather than 

 intellect and the higher moral feelings. They are 

 frequently equaled in their own peculiar kind of 

 eloquence by the brown or dark eyes in the domes- 

 tic dog. In animals there is, in fact, often an exag- 

 gerated eloquence of expression. To judge from 

 their eyes, caged cats and eagles in the Zoological 

 Gardens are all furred and feathered Bonnivards. 

 Even in the most intellectual of men the brown 

 eye speaks more of the heart than of the head. In 

 the inferior creatures the black eye is always keen 

 and cunning or else soft and mild, as in fawns, 

 doves, aquatic birds, etc.; and it is remarkable 

 that in man also the black eye dark brown iris 

 with large pupil generally has one or the other 

 of these predominant expressions. Of course, in 

 highly civilized communities, individual exceptions 

 are extremely numerous. Spanish and negro 

 w r omen have wonderfully soft and loving eyes, 

 while the cunning weasel-like eye is common every- 

 where, especially amongst Asiatics. In high-caste 

 Orientals the keen, cunning look has been refined 

 and exalted to an appearance of marvelous sub- 

 tlety the finest expression of which the black eye 

 is capable. 



The blue eye all blues and grays being here in- 

 cluded is par excellence, the eye of intellectual 

 man: that outer warm-colored pigment hanging 

 like a cloud, as it were, over the brain absorbs its 



