40 EXPRESSION, 
Permanent Expression. 
The most recent, and probably the most profound 
and elaborate attempt to unravel the mysteries of 
expression is Mr. Darwin’s, and I think it is to be 
regretted that so acute and original an observer 
has confined himself so strictly to the expression of 
the emotions, and neither allowed his mind to 
diverge to the expression of thought by language, 
nor to that permanent expression due to form of 
skeleton and chiselling of soft parts. Of course it 
is open to any one to take up the position that 
there is no relationship between the characteristics 
of the mind and the permanent forms of the body, 
and such a position is often maintained. But even 
if it be granted, as it well may be, that conclusions 
derived from bodily conformation are often liable 
to be delusive, and even if the extreme view be 
held that the forms of the features and other 
parts of the body never afford any key whatever 
to mental qualities, it yet remains incontrovert- 
ible that the mind of the observer is so affected 
by different bodily forms as to associate them 
with different mental qualities, and to feel a 
sense of the unexpected when convinced in any 
instance that the association is violated by nature. 
Thus it is one of the acknowledged aims of the © 
