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with the veins on the forehead and neck dis- 

 tended. The reddening of the skin has been 

 observed with the copper-coloured Indians of 

 South America, and even, as it is said, on the 

 white cicatrices left by old wounds on negroes. 

 Monkeys also redden from passion. With one of 

 my own infants, under four months old, I re- 

 peatedly observed that the first symptom of an 

 approaching passion was the rushing of the 

 blood into his bare scalp. On the other hand, 

 the action of the heart is sometimes so much 

 impeded by great rage that the countenance 

 becomes pallid or livid, and not a few men with 

 heart-disease have dropped down dead under 

 this powerful motion. 



" The respiration is likewise affected ; the 

 chest heaves and the dilated nostrils quiver. As 

 Tennyson writes, ' sharp breaths of anger puffed 

 her fairy nostrils out/ Hence we have such 

 expressions as ' breathing out vengeance/ ' fuming 

 with anger/ 



" The excited brain gives strength to the 

 muscles, and at the same time energy to the will. 

 The body is commonly held erect ready for instant 

 action, but sometimes it is bent forward towards 

 the offending person, with the limbs more or less 



