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cian spoke of the natural relationship of minds and hearts, 
both the one and the other alluded, assuredly without sus- 
pecting it, to the mixture, penetration, and easy crossing 
of two atmospheres. 
“T love thee not, Sabidus,” wrote Martial, “and I 
know not why; all that I can tell thee’ is, that I love 
thee not.” Mesmerists would soon have relieved the poet 
from his doubts. If Martial loved not Sabidus, it was 
because their atmospheres could not intermingle without 
occasioning a kind of storm. 
Plutarch informs us that the conqueror of Arminius 
fainted at the sight of a cock. Antiquity was astonished 
at this phenomenon. What could be more simple, how- 
ever? the corporeal emanations of Germanicus and of 
the cock exercised a repulsive action the one on the 
other. 
The illustrious biographer of Cheronea declares, it is 
true, that the presence of the cock was not requisite, that 
its crowing produced exactly the same effect on the 
adopted son of Tiberius. Now, the crowing may be 
heard a long way off; the crowing, then, would seem to 
possess the power of transporting the corporeal emana- 
tions of the king of the lower court with great rapidity 
through space. The thing may appear difficult to be- 
lieve. As for myself, I think it would be puerile to stop 
at such a difficulty; have we not leaped high over other 
difficulties far more embarrassing ? 
The Maréchal d’Albret was still worse off than Ger- 
manicus : the atmosphere that made him fall into a syn- 
cope exhaled from the head of a wild boar. A live, 
complete, whole wild boar produced no effect; but on 
perceiving the head of the animal detached from the 
body, the Maréchal was struck as if with lightning. You 
