"He concludes that the muscles round the eyes contract partly forthe sake of excluding too much light (which appears to me the moreimportant end), and partly to prevent all rays striking the retina,except those which come direct from the object that is scrutinized.Mr. Bowman, whom I consulted on this point, thinks that the contractionof the surrounding muscles may, in addition, "partly sustain the consensualmovements of the two eyes, by giving a firmer support while the ...

For instance, I watched for some time a baby, between sevenand eight weeks old, sucking some milk which was cold, and thereforedispleasing to him; and a steady little frown was maintained all the time.This was never developed into an actual crying-fit, though occasionallyevery stage of close approach could be observed.As the habit of contracting the brows has been followed by infantsduring innumerable generations, at the commencement of everycrying or screaming fit, it has become firmly associated withthe incipient sense of something distressing or ...

Men of all races frown when they are in any way perplexed in thought,as I infer from the answers which I have received to my queries; but I framedthem badly, confounding absorbed meditation with perplexed reflection.Nevertheless, it is clear that the Australians, Malays, Hindoos, and Kafirsof South Africa frown, when they are puzzled.  Dobritzhoffer remarksthat the Guaranies of South America on like occasions knit their brows.[4]From these considerations, we may conclude that frowningis not the expression of simple reflection, however profound,or of attention, however ...

 Or, as he elsewhere says,"when the eyebrows are knit, energy of mind is apparent, and thereis the mingling of thought and emotion with the savage and brutalrage of the mere animal."[1] There is much truth in these remarks,but hardly the whole truth.  Dr. Duchenne has called the corrugatorthe muscle of reflection;[2] but this name, without some limitation,cannot be considered ...

With babies,whilst sucking their mother's breast, this movement of the eyeballsoften gives to them an absurd appearance of ecstatic delight;and here it may be clearly perceived that a struggle is goingon against the position naturally assumed during sleep.But Sir C. Bell's explanation of the I love ...