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merely results from the suggestion, and the quicker beat of the heart 

 may be the main medium in bringing about the result. A miserable, 

 slow pulse, with depression, is succeeded by a more rapid, and even a 

 bounding one. Sounds and voices, as well as words associated with 

 anger are often more efficacious than quieting sounds &c. It is not 

 desirable to disturb the mental equilibrium always, but a study of the 

 effects of sounds, words, or even syllables, or the catching modu- 

 lations of the voice must prove useful. I do not allude to surprises 

 which are often used by orators. The cultivation of the aesthetic is 

 attended with many advantages. 



"True comedy is said to be the art of teaching virtue and 

 decency in action and in discourse, obviously from dress and 

 deportment, by suggestion as well as by the style, intonation &c." 

 A comparatively trivial presentation to the eye or ear may pro- 

 duce a very grateful sensation. Gesture and pose, voice, mode of 

 arrangement of words; all are effective, but a short word, or a portion 

 of a word may be even more efficient than a sentence. Everyone 

 notices that the same word, or the same object affects different people 

 differently. 



"Now, by two-headed Janus, 



Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time; 



Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, 



And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper; 



And others of such vinegar aspect. 



That they'll not show their teeth by way of smile. 



Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable." 



(Mer. of. Ven.) 

 Suggestion is so potent, especially when emphasized by its 

 accompaniments, or the absence of distracting factors, that one 

 may attach undue importance to the psychic effects on living or- 

 ganisms. 



The heart of a mammal is moved to activity by apparatus within 

 itself, the nature of the fluid has an effect on the ventricle, serum 

 albumin is very potent. The muscle of the heart partakes partly of 

 the character of striated muscle, of non-striated muscle, and of the 



