Thus in the concentric state, three types may be noted, and these go to make twenty-seven primary movements.  The lower eyelid may be contracted; the twenty-seven first movements may be examined with this, which makes 2x27.

A movement of the cheek may contract the eye in an opposite direction, and this contraction may be total, which makes eighty-one expressions belonging to the normal glance alone.

This direct glance may also be direct on the inferior plane, which makes 2x81; for these are distinct expressions which cannot be confounded.

This movement could again be an upward one, which would make 3x81.

The movement may be outward and superior, or it may be simply outward; it may also be outward and inferior.  A special sense is attached to each of these movements,—­a sense which cannot be confounded with any of the preceding movements.

By making the same computation for the three glances above noted, we shall have from eight to nine hundred movements.

All this may appear complicated, but with the key of the primary movements, nothing can be more simple than this deduction.

The above chart with its exposition of the phases of the eye explains everything.  A small eye is a sign of strength; a large eye is a sign of languor.  A small oblique eye (the Chinese eye), when associated with lateral development of the cranium, and ears drawn back, indicates a predisposition to murder.

The eye opens only in the first emotion; then it becomes calm, closing gradually; an eye wide open in emotion, denotes stupidity.

Of the Eyebrows.

There are three thermometers:  the eyebrow is the thermometer of the mind; the shoulder is the thermometer of the life; the thumb is the thermometer of the will.

There is parallelism between the eye and the voice.  The voice lowered and the brow lifted, indicate a desire to create surprise, and a lack of mental depth.

It is very important to establish this parallelism between the movements of the brow and voice.

The lowered brow signifies retention, repulsion:  It is the signification of a closed door.  The elevated brow means the open door.  The mind opens to let in the light or to allow it to escape.  The eyebrow is nothing less than the door of intelligence.  In falling, the voice repels.  The efforts in repulsion and retention are equal.

The inflections are in accord with the eyebrows.  When the brows are raised, the voice is raised.  This is the normal movement of the voice in relation to the eyebrow.

Sometimes the eyebrow is in contradiction to the movement of the voice.  Then there is always ellipse; it is a thought unexpressed.  The contradiction between these two agents always proves that we must seek in the words which these phenomena modify, something other than they seem to say.  For instance, when we reply to a story just told us, with this exclamation:  “Indeed!”