| | 1 | Author: | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Add | | | Title: | The expression of the emotions in man and animals  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WILL begin by giving the three Principles, which
appear to me to account for most of the expressions
and gestures involuntarily used by man and the lower
animals, under the influence of various emotions and
sensations.[1] I arrived, however, at these three Principles
only at the close of my observations. They will
be discussed in the present and two following chapters
in a general manner. Facts observed both with man
and the lower animals will here be made use of; but
the latter facts are preferable, as less likely to deceive
us. In the fourth and fifth chapters, I will describe
the special expressions of some of the lower animals;
and in the succeeding chapters those of man. Everyone
will thus be able to judge for himself, how far my
three principles throw light on the theory of the subject.
It appears to me that so many expressions are
thus explained in a fairly satisfactory manner, that
probably all will hereafter be found to come under the
same or closely analogous heads. I need hardly premise
that movements or changes in any part of the
body, — as the wagging of a dog's tail, the drawing back
of a horse's ears, the shrugging of a man's shoulders,
or the dilatation of the capillary vessels of the skin, —
may all equally well serve for expression. The three
Principles are as follows. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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