EXPRESSION. 45 
constitution of the nervous system, independently 
of the will.”! 
I might have alluded more particularly to those 
forms which depend not on the skeleton but on the 
soft parts, giving the presence or absence of chisel- 
ling to the features ; the term chiselling indicating 
curves such as suggest a firm material moulded 
into shape, as contrasted with those into which soft 
pulp might gravitate. But it may well be answered 
that such modelling being pleasant to the eye is 
inherited by artificial selection, and that, though on 
this account more common in the educated classes, 
it may be largely present in the absence of grace 
or culture of mind or heart, while in other instances 
these latter may be present, and modelling of the 
features absent. A fair argument might be sus- 
tained that the circumstances favourable to moral 
and mental selection are often coincident with 
those favourable to physical selection ; and that, 
apart from this, it is natural to asscciate the plea- 
sant in mind with the pleasant in body, forms 
noble on account of mere physical harmonies with 
nobility of moral description, even though the two 
things may not be associated in the external world. 
Yet there are probably few who will doubt that if 
two children of the same parents, closely resembling 
1 Darwin, Expression of the Emotions, p. 28, 
