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agencies is a self-depreciative, retiring, bashful person, 

 suicide may result. If, on the other hand, he is of the 

 bold, forward, belligerent, noisy kind, jealousy leads to 

 homicide. In either instance, insanity is the motive 

 force which has loosened the check reins of the will." 



You see in this statement it is agreed that the brain 

 may be perfectly sound, but the body is placed in control 

 of some nerve center, or little brain, as they call it, 

 located somewhere in the body and not in the brain. 



Take another emotion, for instance, that of fear; no 

 doubt certain special cells are given full charge of affairs, 

 when a person becomes frightened. He does things 

 swiftly and without thinking. Stampedes and other ir- 

 rational acts take place, as for instance in fires and 

 wrecks. A good illustration of an animal in charge of 

 special nerve centers controlling the body in case of fear, 

 is the frightened horse. When once frightened or pos- 

 sessed by the emotion of fear, he will run as long as he 

 is able; he will stop at nothing. Certain motor nerve 

 centers in control of the movements of running will com- 

 pel him to run as far and fast as possible. On the plains 

 where the horse lived for thousands of years in a natural 

 state, his only method of escape from his enemies was a 

 run for his life in this manner. The cells organized for 

 that purpose keep it up even now when it is no longer of 

 any use to the horse. His instinct to shy to one side of 

 any object is evidently also located in certain cells. No 

 doubt tigers and lions always hid behind different kinds 

 of objects and the horse soon learned that it was the 

 safest plan to steer to one side of all objects, no matter 

 what they looked like. It is a singular thing how sud- 

 denly and completely the nerve centers in charge of the 

 emotion of fear can take possession of an animal. 



I have watched the actions of deer and elk. The deer 



