Men of small brain habitually carry their heads high. The head is
lowered in proportion to the quantity of intelligence.
Examine the criterion for the fixed attitudes of the head.
_Of the Eyes._
The eye, in common with all the other agents, has nine primary
expressions, three genera and nine species.
The eye contains three agents: The optic or visual, the palpebral or
pupil, and the eyebrow agent. Each of these has its peculiar sense, and
we shall show how they are united.
The optic agent has three direct or convergent glances. The eyes
converge toward the object they examine, at such a point that if the
object were there they would squint. A skilled observer can determine
the distance of the object, upon seeing the two eyes.
There is a revolving or divergent glance. If both eyes project in
parallel lines, they see double. A drunken man sees double because the
eyes do not converge.
Between these two glances there is the ecstatic or parallel vision; but
the object is not so far away that its distance may not be determined.
The convergence is not appreciable. This is the dreamy expression. We
shall here treat of one only, to which we refer the three others. Let us
take the direct glance, passing by the optic agent, since it is direct
in all the phenomena we have to consider.
There are three phenomena in the eyebrow: eccentric, concentric and
normal. From these we derive nine terms.
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