CONTENTS 



IV 



PAGE 



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 



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 Hght 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- 

 smeUing by Mosquito Indians — Case from Dugald 



