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Miscellaneous Inielligence. 443 
_ This the lecturer maintained to be the true account of the mode in 
_ ‘Rot perceive the objects around him, although his movements are obvi- 
_ ously guided by the i — which they make upon his sensorium. 
On the same grounds, it seems reasonable to suppose that when ideas 
do not go on to be developed into emotions, or to excite intellectual 
operations, they, too, may act (so to speak) in the transverse Bivoction; 
the case in regard to the direction of the thoughts iff the states of elec- 
tro-biology, somnambulism, and all forms of dreaming and reverie. 
Thus the ideo-motor principle of action, as contrasted with the excito- 
otor and sensorio-motor, finds its appropriate place in the physiolog- 
ical scale,—which would, indeed, be incomplete without it. And when 
of reconciling them with the known laws of nervous action. The phe- 
nomena in question are those which _~ been recently set down to the 
action of an “ od-force,”—such, for example, as the movements of the 
“divining-rod,” and the vibration of bodies suspended from the finger ; 
both which have been clearly proved to depend on the state of expectant 
his mind is given up, and the anticipation of a given result being the 
stimulus which a and involuntarily prompts the muscular move- 
ments that produc 
. Motion in the er Hill a through ‘oe action of the 
1.) 
hing permanently over the same spot. The monument is an obelisk of 
granite 221 feet high, and 30 feet square at base; the cavity within is 
7 feet across at bottom and 5 feet at top. The pendulum was sus- 
pended at the center of the roof. The ip. sei of hs ball from the 
center commenced before 7 o’clock a. M. on a sunny day ; at this hour 
it was to the westward; at noon to the northwest; and at evening to 
the eastward. In the progress of the afternoon it had twice os amount 
of motion observed in the morning. During the ni ight, it was grad- 
way restored to the central position. ‘The — inposkor” of the 
