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rigid. The mouth is generally closed with firm- 

 ness, showing fixed determination, and the teeth 

 are clenched or ground together. Such gestures 

 as the raising of the arms, with the fist clenched, 

 as if to strike the offender, are common. Few 

 men in a great passion, and telling someone 

 to be gone, can resist acting as if they intended 

 to strike or push the man violently away. The 

 desire, indeed, to strike often becomes so in- 

 tolerably strong that inanimate objects are struck 

 or dashed to the ground ; but gestures frequently 

 become altogether purposeless or frantic. Young 

 children, when in a violent rage, roll on the 

 ground on their backs or bellies, screaming, 

 kicking, scratching, or biting everything within 

 reach. So it is, as I hear from Mr. Scott, with 

 Hindoo children ; and, as we have seen, with the 

 young of the anthropomorphous apes. 



" But the muscular system is often affected 

 in a wholly different way ; for trembling is a 

 frequent consequence of extreme rage. The 

 paralysed lips then refuse to obey the will, ' and 

 the voice sticks in the throat/ or it is rendered 

 loud, harsh, and discordant. If there be much 

 and rapid speaking, the mouth froths. The hair 

 sometimes bristles. . There is in most cases 



