EXPRESSION. 47 
both physical and mental conditions are such as the 
following :—Those expressing height, as—upward 
and downward, ascent and descent, elevation and 
depression, superiority and inferiority, rise and 
decline or fall, over and under; those expressing 
other directions, as—forward and backward, ad- 
vance and retrogression, before and behind or to 
one side, direct and roundabout, straight and 
oblique ; those expressing distance, as—far and 
near, approach and separation, attraction and re- 
pulsion; words expressing magnitude, as—large 
and small, wide and narrow, expanded and con- 
tracted : words expressing resistance, as—strong 
and weak, hard and soft, firm and yielding ; words 
connected with motion or rest, as—quick and slow, 
tension and relaxation. 
The connection between the physical and other 
meanings of these words is in most instances 
not far to seek. No doubt at first sight it may 
seem puzzling to find anything in common be- 
tween moral elevation and physical elevation 
or mere distance from the earth’s surface, and one 
may look on it as remarkable that in the ideas 
of all men the two things are associated, and 
are so by a link independent of the peculiarities of 
individual languages, so that one is led to suspect 
that the bond is not only universal but necessary ; 
