LECTURE II. 87 



guishable. The head of a brute has its 

 forehead oblique, or declining towards a 

 horizontal line, drawn from the top of the 

 face ; and the sides of the forehead con- 

 verge from the orbits, so as to make it 

 narrower at the top than at the bottom. 

 The Greeks made the human forehead 

 advance a little before a perpendicular 

 line, and they raised it to an uncommon 

 height. They made it also diverge from 

 the orbits, so as to be broader above than 

 below. The eyes of animals are placed at 

 the sides of the head, so that they see la- 

 terally, and some even behind them. The 

 human eyes are made to look forwards ; 

 whenever they glance to a side, they indi- 

 cate either fear or distrust. The Greeks 

 seem to have paid attention to this point ; 

 the eyes are made to look strait forwards, 

 and the outer edge of the orbit is so 

 wrought up, as seemingly to preclude a 

 contrary vision., The eyebrow is a feature 

 peculiar to the human face ; and I think 

 it must be regarded chiefly as an organ of 

 eixpression. In the antique head, this part 

 is finished with much labour and skilL 



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