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in contrast, the explanations in such like references of 

 another school with the hope that these latter will, 

 on the whole, show as the more satisfactory : 



" It would he well to resume and treat in a special 

 science a psychical physiology the system of internal 

 feeling in its external embodiment of special expression. 

 How it is with the agreeable and the disagreeable, for 

 example, with the symbolical signification of the 

 various colours, tones, odours, flavours, with the re- 

 ference of anger and courage to the blood and the 

 breast, of thought to the head, of care and anxiety to 

 the deeper vitals, with the production of tears, cries, 

 sighs, laughter, etc. Or how it is that feeling is bene- 

 ficial, injurious, or even fatal ; how cheerfulness pro- 

 motes health, and apprehension undermines it : how 

 grief in overmeasure, or too sudden, may cause insanity 

 or death ; but how the man of stronger character, 

 nevertheless, is much less exposed to such effects than 

 others weaker, inasmuch as he has made his internality 

 much more independent of his externality, and has won 

 for himself a much firmer support from within than a 

 more ordinary man, who, poorer in thought and in will, 

 has not the strength to endure the negation of a violent 

 evil suddenly breaking in upon him. Further, how the 

 external embodiment of inward feeling, that is the 

 objectivisation of it, removes it, cancels it, as we see 

 take place in the making of the affected person laugh, 

 still more in the affected person himself giving way to 

 weeping, sighing, sobbing the relief of weeping, etc., as 

 it is called generally, indeed, to sheer ejaculations of 

 voice, independent of speech. To bow the head indicates 

 an affirmation, for we signify thereby something of sub- 

 jection. The bowing of Europeans is only from above : 

 they will not yield the independence of themselves. It 

 is the Oriental who prostrates himself before the superior, 



