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 Cowslip Melancholy flowers Honeysuckle and 

 sweet-briar Shakespeare and Chaucer on its scent Chaucer, 

 though old, still living Scents and their degrading associa- 

 tions Frankincense. 



THE wind was the subject of the last chapter, 

 then that of telepathy cropped up and occu- 

 pied the last half. But the gust had not 

 blown its fill: there was indeed very much more to 

 say about it, only here I seem to be standing alone 

 in it, feeling it, thinking of it, and it will probably 

 be best for me to wait for others physicists, 

 physiologists and psychologists to come out and 

 feel and listen to it with me. 



There is, however, just one matter, a simple fact 

 familiar, I dare say, to most persons, which I either 

 forgot to mention, or did not emphasise when writing 

 in praise of the wind. It will now, I fancy, come best 

 in this place, since it will serve/to link the last chapter 

 with the present one, which has for its subject the 

 sense of smell. 



When a smell a flowery fragrance, let us say, 

 to be on the agreeable side of things is blown to 

 our nostrils, the nerve's sensibility is not quickly 



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