The Course of Lessons Given in America By Mme. Géraldy

Mme. Géraldy prefaced her course of lessons with the following remarks:

God is Trinity. Man, created in the image of God, bears the seal of the Trinity. In these lessons we shall analyze our whole person. We shall dwell upon three terms: Concentric, normal, excentric. We find them everywhere.

1, excentric; 2, concentric; 3, normal.

We will begin with the eye--it is the most difficult.

Lesson I.
The Eye and the Eyebrow.

The Eye. Concentric Closed.
Normal Open, without expression.
Excentric Wide open.
The Eyebrow. Concentric Lowered.
Normal Without expression.
Excentric Raised.
Combinations of the Eye and Eyebrow.
Eye. Eyebrow. Expression.
Concentric Concentric Intenseness of thought.
Concentric Normal Heaviness, or somnolency.
Concentric Excentric Disdain.
Normal Concentric Moroseness.
Normal Normal Without expression.
Normal Excentric Indifference.
Excentric Concentric Firmness.
Excentric Normal Stupor.
Excentric Excentric Astonishment.

The expressions of stupor and of astonishment are greatly increased when preceded by a quivering of the eyelid (blinking). This should be very rapid and very energetic. Delsarte always insisted on this blinking.