CHAP. 51.—THE FACE, THE FOREHEAD, AND THE EYE-BROWS.
Man is the only creature that has a face, the other animals
having only a muzzle or a beak. Other animals have a forehead as well, but it is only on the forehead of man that is
depicted sorrow, gladness, compassion, or severity. It is the
forehead that is the index of the mind. Man has eyebrows,
also, which move together or alternately; these, too, serve in
some measure as indications of the feelings. Do we deny or
do we assent, it is the eyebrows, mostly, that indicate our
intentions. Feelings of pride may be generated elsewhere,
but it is here that they have their principal abode; it is in the
heart that they take their rise, but it is to the eyebrows that
they mount, and here they take up their position. In no part
of the body could they meet with a spot more lofty and more
precipitous, in which to establish themselves free from all
control.