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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. 



" I 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 Marechal 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 Marechal was struck as if with lightning. You 



