iveness and cautious-ness. It is rather curious in reference to this that Combe, inhis System of Phrenology (published more than 50 years ago),in describing the natural language of secretiveness connects itwith cautiousness, as I will presently show. Ferriers description is as follows, with his own… … a tendency to closure of the eyelids, if the eyes are already openat the time of stimulation, as if under the stimulus of a strong-light. Now mark what Combe says concerning the eyes : Theeye is half shut, just sufficiently open to enable the secretiveperson to see out, but not so wide as to enable…
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