The Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 19

Author : Spencer Baynes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391964553
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 19 of 30: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, His written by Spencer Baynes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 19 of 30: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention It follows from these propositions that the expres sion of emotion is for the most part not under the con trol of the will, and that those striped muscles are the most expressive which are the least voluntary. The philoso y of physiognomy may be formulated upon this d nite theoretic basis. (l) The actions we look upon as expressive of emotions are such as at some time were serviceable in relieving or gratifying the desires or sensations accompan ng the emotion. 2) Such actions become habitual y associated with t e mental condition and continue even where their utility is lost. (3) Certain muscles which produce these actions become from habitual action strengthened, and, when the skin diminishes in fulness and elasticity with advancing age, the action of the muscle produws furrows or wrinkles in the skin at right an les to the course of the fibres of the muscle. (4) As t e mental dis 'tiou and proneness to action are inherited by chi dreu from parents, so the facility and proneness to expression are similarly developed under the law of heredity. (5) To some extent habitual muscular ac tion and the habitual flow of nerve-force in certain directions may alter the contour of such bones and car tilages as are thereby acted upon by the muscles of ex pression. Illustrations of these theoretic propositions are to be found in the works of Bell, Duchenue, and Darwin, to which the student may be referred for further information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.