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the death.” This delicacy of organisation, united with 
Saxon force, makes America a nation of orators. 
Differences in Delusions . 
The two nations, England and America, differ in their 
delusions, — our spiritualism, animal magnetism, and clair- 
voyance having but slight influence in the mother-country. 
Delusions, like nervous diseases, are not, however, uniformly 
distributed in this country, but diminish as we go south. 
On the warm Gulf Coast the desires to solve the problems 
of life melt quietly away, the superstitions of the northern 
tvpe being borne out of sight in the overheated atmosphere ; 
the clairvoyants that grow rich in New York, Brooklyn, and 
Chicago, would starve in Mobile and New Orleans. A 
medical patient of mine— intelligent, alert, and observing, 
well fitted to judge, and of large acquaintance in the 
southern cities— tells me that one of these seers, who came 
there, returned without securing any native patronage ; the 
little that came to her was from northern visitors. 
The swath that Brown the mind-reader cut across this 
continent— mowing down professors, scholars, philosophers, 
editors, colleges, and universities by the score, was m a 
northern settion only ; had he gone through the Gulf States 
his path would have been like that of a ship at sea a slight 
ripple, in a moment disappearing. Of the large number of 
names of universities and schools, of teachers of philosophy 
and of science, that adorn his placards, like the scalps ot 
the red man as he returns from battle, not one is from the 
South. 
