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shrinking of the sensitive plant when touched, and 
Will-o’-the-wisps, and crowing hens, and_ the 
murderous attack of social birds and beasts on one 
of their fellows, seemed less strange and wonderful 
than the fact that this man’s eyes did not correspond, 
but were the eyes of two men, as if there had been 
two natures and souls in one body. My astonish- 
ment was, perhaps, not unaccountable, when we 
reflect that the eye is tous the window of the mind 
or soul, that it expresses the soul, and is, as it 
were, the soul itself materialized. Some person 
lately published in England a book entitled ‘ Soul- 
Shapes,” treating not only of the shapes of souls 
but also of their colour. The letter-press of this 
work interests me less than the coloured plates 
adorning it. Passing over the mixed and vari- 
coloured souls, which resemble, in the illustrations, 
coloured maps in an atlas, we come to the blue soul, 
for which the author has a very special regard. Its 
blue is like that of the commonest type of blue eye. 
This curious fancy of a blue soul probably origi- 
nated in the close association of eye and soul in the 
mind. It is worthy of note that while the mixed 
and other coloured souls seem very much out of 
shape, like an old felt hat or a stranded jelly- 
fish, the pure-coloured blue soul is round, like 
an iris, and only wanted a pupil to be made an 
eye. 
But the subject of the colour and expression of 
eyes in man and animals must be reserved for the 
next chapter ; in the present chapter I shall con- 
