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of an object to which he attributes it; — by a 

 threat of harm, of danger from some large object 

 which is advancing towards him; — by his sin- 

 king into the ground, by his slipping on the ice, 

 and thus becoming afraid eyen to move. It may 

 be and is often caused by a small harmless object 

 such as a leaf or weed bending in the wind. All 

 the objects whicli he has never seen may call forth 

 in him tlie idea of fear. 



Defective evesight is very often the cause of 

 ihe fear of objects. It seems tluit liorses having 

 a perfectly good sight are few. 1 remember a hor- 

 se which if any object whatever Avere placed on 

 tlie ground, and he were led along close to it, 

 was always afraid of it the first time, luit not the 

 second. On changing the ])lace of the same object, 

 and putting it twenty yards furtlier away, the lirst 

 time he passed it he was always afraid of it again. 

 Tliis means that his eye was unable to recognise 

 the same object, and that on the second time of 

 his seeing it in the new place where it had been 

 put, he was not afraid of it because he had seen 

 it once before and remembered having seen it there. 



