If the eye is normal, it is a
passive expression which determines nothing. If, with the same eye, the
eyebrow is eccentric, there is a difference; one part of us tends
vehemently toward something, and the other says: "It is not worth the
trouble." The sensitive part aspires, while the intellect says, "This
amounts to nothing."
The concentric eyebrow indicates a mind disconcerted by fatigue or
_ennui_, a contention of one part of the nature with the other, which
resists, and says: "I do not wish to be troubled about this; it wearies
me."
The normal brow and the eccentric eye indicate stupor.
Here there is again contrariety. One part of the being ardently aspires
toward some object, while the other is powerless to aid it.
The eye is purely an intellectual agent, denoting the various states of
the mind.
The eccentric eye and the elevated eyebrow denote vehemence. This is an
active state that will become astonishment. Many phenomena will arise
and be subordinate to this movement; but it is vehemence _par
excellence_; it is aspiration.
If the brow lowers vehemently with the eyes open, it is not rage, but a
state of mind independent of everything the senses or the heart can say.
This is firmness of mind, a state of the will independent of every
outside influence. It may be attention, or anger, or many other things.
If the eye is concentric and the eyebrow in the normal state, it is
slumber, fatigue.
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