90 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO ni, 



" And last Suggestion's mystic power describes 

 Ideal hosts arranged in trains or tribes. 

 So when the Nymph with volant finger rings 

 Her dulcet harp, and shakes the sounding strings; 

 As with soft voice she trills the enamour'd song, 

 Successive notes,, unwill'd, the strain prolong; QO 



The transient trains ASSOCIATION steers, 

 And sweet vibrations charm the astonish'd ears. 



" ON rapid feet o'er hills, and plains, and rocks,. 

 Speed the scared leveret and rapacious fox; 

 On rapid pinions cleave the fields above 

 The hawk descending, and escaping dove; 

 With nicer nostril track the tainted ground 

 The hungry vulture, and the prowling hound ; 



Association steers, 1. 91. Association is an exertion or change of 

 some extreme part of the sensorium residing in the muscles and 

 organs of sense in consequence of some antecedent or attendant 

 fibrous contractions. Associate icteas, therefore, are those which are 

 preceded by other ideas or muscular motions, without the interven- 

 tion of irritation, sensation, or volition between them; these are also 

 termed ideas of suggestion. 



