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ourselves drawn to some, and driven from others. The out- 

 ward appearance corresponds to a great extent to the inner life 

 or character ; but not so much as to prevent our often being 

 deceived in our judgment of persons; while the feeling of them 

 in those who have such impressibility, is seldom mistaken. 

 We all have, more or less, these sympathies and antipathies. 

 There are names for them in all languages. 



The lower animals have many of the most mysterious powers 

 of life. They have clairvoyance, prevision, perception of charac- 

 ter, powers of fascination, or magnetic influence, and intuition, 

 or, as we call it in them, instinctive perception, or conscious- 

 ness, of the most remarkable character. Bees, birds, fishes, 

 beavers, and probably a great many animals we are less 

 acquainted with, have interior, or what we call spiritual powers, 

 which many find it hard to allow to man ; as if he were less 

 gifted than the lower orders of creation. That his gifts are 

 marred and disordered is evident enough. What should be 

 universal are exceptional and rare ; but they still exist in form, 

 and sometimes in development. The bee, wherever you may 

 carry it, goes in a straight line to its hive. There are men 

 similarly guided. Migratory birds must be clairvoyant. Human 

 beings have sometimes the power of seeing clearly what 

 is going on hundreds or thousands of miles away. Animals 

 adapt their dwellings to the temperature of a coming winter, 

 and foresee calamities which endanger them. Some persons 

 have the gift of prophecy, or the faculty of second-sight, though 

 all the scientific men in the world cannot tell what weather it 

 will be next Wednesday. A sealed letter, a lock of hair, or 

 other relic, conveys to some very sensitive persons the revela- 

 tion of the appearance, character, and even the events of the 

 lives of those they have never seen, or even heard of. The 

 somnambulist reveals the most secret thoughts and concealed 

 propensities of persons. Knowledge of the distant, the future, 

 and of that which cannot be known by ordinary methods, can 





