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a proof of hig-lier cerebration. One cannot prophesy without knowing 

 a lot of things (contiguity, sequence, antithesis, &c.). Factors may 

 step in unobserved, besides suggestion which comes to a man from 

 feature, pose, or movement. The instances that we have of the 

 freedom fi^om pain that those experience who are boxing, chasing, 

 battling, prove how powerful is the excitement of the mind. One has 

 in severe shock, after a severe accident, little or no local pain. One 

 sees occasionally those who have had a hand crushed , or the scalp 

 torn off by machinery, and no evidence of pain, at first. It has been 

 said and suggested that the position of the servant, the guided 

 or commanded, is much more agreeable than the position of com- 

 mander. 



The private soldier of former times who served his full time in 

 the British army came away comparatively fresh and unaffected by 

 his service. Officers in command had acquired the furrows made by 

 care and anxiety. The contention is that a feeling of security and 

 protection is associated with obedience to the orders of a superior. 

 The condition suggests the pristine condition of childhood, when the 

 parental mind provided food and clothing, whilst the children gambolled 

 and grew happy with the thought that they had unfailing protectors 

 against all the world. The suggestion of strength (power) becomes 

 associated with increase of number, and this reacts also through the 

 commander on the individual. It takes maturity to enable the indi- 

 vidual to understand this. However some .think it "easier to teach 

 twenty men what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty 

 to follow mine own teaching". 



Want of security and uncertainty for the future breed nervous 

 dyspepsias that even the most exciting state of polling contests fail 

 to banish permanently. Auto-suggestion is invoked often to get rid 

 of uncertainty, sometimes unfortunately. The examples of expressions 

 of the emotions in animals, discussed by Darwin in his epoch-making 

 work, have been supplemented from time- to time by numerous obser- 

 vers, and it is now almost certain that many give form and colour 

 to their actual cerebration by their words, sentences, intonations, 



featural display, pose and movements. It would be an easy matter 



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