Show fon an nl spirit or ulc lle mm ilar anil other meTho Cri or M ord at a reception recently given at ho lung kaiml college ll dr samuel G amor dean nt the college faculty delivered an address on the interaction of lind and asody which sparked with gems of thought allie Jl lie quality of alic human mind bild iho lecturer or being a thi us of Is one of hie facts of human history which at periods of ho worlds is hada strange and ID shaping destiny and ct as a fact historically con it lias received but antion dicu arc bound not more by alic dependencies discovered bv reason alian intuitive se nw of alic and tha cs direct and aido cacci oilier in ami all imp uloa aio born dlhy to iu fi elms and in action whom ue lore and admire this principle of sympathetic imitation like other element exists in decrees in din crent persons somo anro born of men others aro born for alo rank and alc alic principle of imitation dill ors al r at different life amlin tho bilter jacc of man Cli ildren learn in J on the ap pearn and manners of those with arc familiarly co J 3 we advance to maturity abc broj to imi lalion grows weaker our improving s gradually divert our attention from tho model ais to standards daoro conformable to our tastes iuan abc in liis respect much like children they learn largely by imitation their ideal being feeble in comparison i that alic subject often passes into the slate of anesthesia as well tui slates jl leavo had abundant and that jhc thc so called some of them at least ach cic they have communications with the dead I 1 can readily believe nay inora aliat to alicy actu illy anil converse and walk with abc acad is not improbable it is in harmony with what ii known of certain lycho 0 1 phenomena alie div i y x theory of strong concentrated L mental upon what psychologists call the emotion ot expectation not become cd into sensational for instance sees what alio mind strongly conceives alio llio car hears a lingers is a memory in the brain tenc sly superstitious sec in the alim ivl light the ghost wrapped in its winding school men call til perversion of mii d anil sense objective subjectivity cainion people call it ft delusion the most int performances of taci of hypnotism as it is now called is external super natural it is merely nn uxa gyration of blat we witness in everyday life an extreme manifestation fe of tho control it one person over another which wo so constantly witness during alic middle acs superstitious and fanatical clement largely vorrous spread as epidemic in waves of sympathy sometimes over alku alio llio tury of a etoia in germany at onu lime it took a tho fonn jf thu dancing mania which was probably nothing moio than an cx t form of st avitua janca it was by comical and audic rious and ly vio lent contortions and fantastic tanta to sec the and soon we arc told oil germany was daering and with tho jiin about alic middle ot tho a strange pinic nion mans the end of tho world was this at ran c has alio centuries and powerfully anany minds today to day in liter times robb crus and other crimes leavo often n local epidemic alic cp idema of liaa long been recognized A singular sing ulac instance is given jn frenca hi tory at thy hotel for invalids in carls among t lio old soldiers alio biad been long to act in concert luicir commanders J ane af taic wa fouad dead buo ouo day by liangqing lia nging and within twelve li macd on ano the post was and V unchanging Sini ilar instances be multiplied to an indefinite cx lent earnestness of purpose is a powerful clement of magnetic sympathy th n is one of alie secrets of the worlds great orators men dinovo in masses under a common impulse this as what makes mighty in battle in ita absence they will jiin away from tho enemy when willi it they will run after masic is another powerful clement of sympathy wu feel alio power we arc by tho wo arc subdued and refined by and the comes into our soul liko a delicious dream not through alio work inga of tho reasoning faculties tho mellowing of a ra adient sympathy human reason has often ecsi to events than prevailing and imitative movements which becoming general like tho around us exert nn but inevitable pressure upon us even education and culture cannot atida limes its influence and it is a principle arts itself in all grades and condition of life alio paragon scle alio llio abo pupil ily imitates alio llio teacher tho child alic intonation 0 the mother the inferior learns by imitating tho superior nril alie sail and gloomy spirit imparts ita leaden liuo to nil within its blighting shadow oa tho other hand alio llio and cheerful ami anil strength into others and so of kindness forbearance gentleness and lovo they their genial anil benign into alio llio dady life wo cannot say too much of hie wonderful potency of kind woid adl words both kill and cure the poet hmata it 19 said was killed by nn article in the and lie say that a sensitive yonn lidy died the othar day from hi ing an insulting valentine if people always very kin d to each other there athoa tiar Ti vr of lovland lovo and chi charity rity 1 to the inlaid alio al ing mountain f air sa to tho budy tho ago of peace and justice and good nill when it orriles orril cs will bo ono of anvy li atrid disappointed locc scolding debt and hard limes arc all unwholesome ali agi ifopo and joy and mirth and mucio arc often more potent remedies than drowsy and blister pl becs land how beo cro lenco and good will con duac to let not liing else enter alio llio sick chamber but kind hopeful assuring words T should alio physician bo a mac of coin ago and chopo and A long and solemn face sad and ladder words ire enough to make kwoll man sick cormal Kor mal hollley enlightened sympathy is one of tho most chinn ing of human it is broad loving and kind it linam uain all the imer elements of iu man chiai to thu universal brotherhood of in in aa magnetism binda to pollica iclal and in iho weep aud cing with elioso alio ic jnice it becomes one of ho most charming ol 01 iho Cliris lian graces morbid sympathy in its md contagious is n and dang clement of tho laumin lu the ot ho linman ni biml wo should nil conclusions aliey mav clience cli ince to bo right they may indeed add glow ind warmth and activity to a sluggish intel elect lect but arc unsafe guidus i atter nil no safety but ia human reason human reason softened guided by r is alio ilick 0 o wo n if wo would not be drifted kofl into alio uncertain seas of fanaticism speculation idealism insanity I 1 haac nothing to say sky and cailland cai lhand wooded mountain and gecca and still mateis but they arc devoid of sense and tion and sympathy the brave old oak is but a giant idiot could alio llio dumb irrational bui verso sympathize with vii doiy it would liso in our eliat alic brook hummed its kiil liil to please u suppo c that alio planets know our name aind smiled on m alb an action as alic poets feign tho smiled on Endy at caria and for his sako canned her ciriot wheels to be stayed at katinos latinos Sup that roso looked pretty and blushed to in spiro us and not merely because it could not licup itself suppose tho birds warbled as nuch for our sako AS their floru by the by they do all thia and more and yet alio llio and moral world of fiuman thought and and sympathy would still bo forc moat m sub and beauty |