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On seeking for a way back to Nature The natural man 

 and his surroundings When pain is pleasure Man in 

 unison with Nature " Intuition of snow," a notion 

 fantastic and true Influence of the wind The wind 

 a promoter of thought Flying thoughts Help from 

 the physicists Phantasms in the wind Telepathic 

 messages A domestic drama Is the wind a mind- 

 messenger ? A desire of the mind The poet expresses 

 it Is it a delusion? Conjectures Mental embry- 

 ology Telepathy inherited from the animals . . 33 



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Wind and the sense of smell Scent in deer and dog 

 Sense of smell in man In the Queensland savage 

 Sense of smell in different races Purely personal 

 experience The Smell of England : a mystery and its 

 solution Aromatic and fragrant smells Wordsworth's 

 vision of Paradise Sweet gale Bracken Gorse and 

 its powerful effect Spiritual quality in odours Cow- 

 slip Melancholy flowers Honeysuckle and sweet- 

 briar Shakespeare and Chaucer on its scent Chaucer, 

 though old, still living Scents and their degrading 

 associations Frankincense . . '* 59 



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The idea of unconscious smelling and the light it lends 

 Effect of rest on nerves of smell: in caverns; at sea; 

 on mountains Character of a dog's smell A friend's 

 surprising experience Racial smell Smell a low sub- 

 ject Physiology Man-smelling by savages Atavism 

 and a man whose nose never deceived him Cheek- 

 smelling by Mosquito Indians Case from Dugald 



