The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin ; edited by Francis Darwin.
- Charles Darwin
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin ; edited by Francis Darwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ON THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS INTRODUCTION Many works have been written on Expression,1 but a greater number on Physiognomy,—that is, on the recognition of character through the study of the per¬ manent form of the features. With this latter subject I am not here concerned. The older treatises,2 which I have consulted, have been of little or no service to me. The famous 4 Conferences ’3 of the painter Le Brun, published in 1667, is the best known ancient work, and 1 [John Bulwer, in his f Pathomyotomia,’ 1649, gives a fairly good description of a variety of expressions, and discusses at length the muscles involved in each. Dr. D. Hack Tuke (c Influence of the Mind upon the Body,’ 2nd edit., 1884, vol. i. p. 232) quotes the c Chirologia ’ of John Bulwer as containing admirable remarks on gesture. Lord Bacon recommended, among the works to be supplied by posterity, 4 The Doctrine of Gesture ; or, the Motions of the Body with a view to their Interpretation.’] 2 J. Parsons, in his paper in the Appendix to the f Philosophical Transactions ’ for 1746, p. 41, gives a list of forty-one old authors who have written on Expression. [Alantegazza has given an “ Esquisse historique de la science de la physionomie et de la mimique humaine ” in chapter i. of his ‘ La Physionomie et l’Expression des Sentiments’ (International Series), 1885.] 3 c Conferences sur l’Expression des differents Caracteres des Passions,’ Paris, 4to, 1667- I always quote from the republication of the ‘ Conferences ’ in the edition of Lavater, by Moreau, which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31346686_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
