232 FEAR 



Often fright is produced by excessive nervousness 

 which makes him afraid of every thing and espe- 

 cially of moving things. Excessive nervousness 

 may originate in defective eyesight and one may 

 be mistaken for the other. His being kept still by 

 actual force near an object which inspires him 

 with fear much increases the fear he experiences 

 of it. 



Peculiarly great fear of an object is usually a 

 sign that he was ill-treated when afraid of the 

 object, and was left in a state of fear and revolt, 

 a thing which should never be done. He may take 

 fright at any object of which he was not afraid 

 if it was associated with the act of striking him 

 with tlie object itself, or in the presence of the 

 object. He fears the whip because Avith it he has 

 been threatened or beaten. He fears the man who 

 lias beaten him because he remembers having been 

 beaten by him. Por this reason he may be taught 

 to be afraid of any desired object by merely stri- 

 king him in the presence of that object. 



