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réceptive, nature. Word sug-gestion. sight, taste, muscle-sense, hearing, 

 touch, all furnish avenues through which suggestion can be made. 

 Little is known with reference to the direct influence of one acting 

 brain on another apart from voice, speech, movement etc. Obviously 

 community of sentiment is apt to be characterized by thoughts on the 

 same lines. The setting sun may evoke the same thoughts in Galway 

 and Vancouver, and if the wind carry bacteria, the same peculiarities 

 nmj affect persons in Albany and Omaha. 



It is possible that loud voices are liked better by horses and 

 dogs than low sounds. This may arise from association. A loud voice 

 amongst men is often associated with importance, and gains respect, 

 but a low, whispering voice suggest confidence, and a "cooing" voice 

 esteem. 



Animals are, apparently, not ignorant of the value of cadence. 

 The suggestion that may be at first psychic may implicitly involve 

 various physiological activities, although after a time the psychic may 

 remain in abeyance, and the physiological may persist. 



The psychic again is apt to give place to the physiological, and 

 excitation of the heart and nervous system may be attended sub- 

 sequently by a glowing optimism, which may become curative in cases 

 of melancholia. 



Amongst groups of people who have claimed the attention of 

 their neighbours and have gained consideration, are the women in 

 various countries. It seems that the life of the ordinary girl or 

 woman is less exciting and less accompanied by pleasurable suggestion 

 and hopes than that of men. The desire for mental growth has been 

 regarded as reasonable; open-air exercise, fresh air, sanitary houses 

 have been, in part, obtained. Neverthe less it has been said. 

 "Woman will bustle, and woman will justle. 

 And yet at the end will lose the day, 

 For hurry and hurry as best she may, 

 Man at one long bound clears the way." 



However vivid the mental phenomena are that the first suggestion 

 evokes, the results may become more shreddy in the event of being- 

 repeated at long intervals, and finally an agreeable feeling or sensation 



