52 EXPRESSION. 
anticipated. Similarly, if an artist wished to express 
sympathy he would bend the figure forwards toward 
the object of the emotion, with the fingers stretched in 
the same direction, as if ready to help, and the palm 
probably inclined downwards, as if in token of pro- 
tection, but not because there is anything actually 
to be covered by them, 
In exercising authority the body is raised to its 
full height, because the moral attitude is one of 
superiority, and the hand may be brought down to 
indicate that opposition will be dealt with in the 
way which in the symbolism of language is ex- 
pressed as “put down.” Again, a speaker in ex- 
plaining his views may bring the fingers of one 
hand down on the other, as if he were producing a 
visible object and placing it on his hand before you, 
or were pointing to a visible statement on paper, the 
downward movement not now giving the idea of de- 
struction, but of that which is symbolically called 
“laying down” his propositions. Here the move- 
ment of the hand keeps pace with the success of the 
speaker’s effort to put his ideas in words; the 
movement is arrested and the muscles tense, as in a 
state of mental tension he struggles with a difficulty; 
then as he overcomes the difficulty down goes the 
hand, as everybody knows, with energy parallel to 
that which he wishes to give to his statement. 
