some cases almost synonymous with it. Many a man must have felt, before the blessed discovery of chloroform, great horror at the thought of an impending surgical operation. He who dreads, as well as hates a man, will feel, as Milton uses the word, a horror of him. We feel horror if we see any one, for instance a child, exposed to some instant and crushing danger. Almost every one would experience the same feeling in the highest degree in witnessing a man being tortured or going to be tortured. In these cases there is no danger to ourselves; but from the power of the imagination and of sympathy we put ourselves in the position of the sufferer, and feel something akin to fear. Sir C. Bell remarks, 39 that "horror is full of energy; the body is in the utmost tension, not unnerved by fear." It is, therefore, probable that horror would generally be accompanied by the strong contraction of 39 'Anatomy of Expression,' p. 169. [page] 323 the brows; but as fear is one of the elements, the eyes and mouth would be opened, and the eyebrows would be raised, as far as the antagonistic action of the Fig. 21. Horror and Agony. Copied from a photograph by Dr. Duchenne. corrugators permitted this movement. Duchenne has given a photograph 40 (fig. 21) of the same old man as before, with his eyes somewhat staring, the eyebrows 40 'Mcanisme de la Physionomie,' Album, pl. 65, pp. 44. 45. Y