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Show Gloomy Thoughts and Gloomy Weather i r Dull, depressing, dingy day.- produce ,; ,;.:r:,. I ing' reflections and gloomy thoughts; at,.: !n;i;; wonder when we remember that tin- mind I- n,,-only n,,-only a motive, but a. receptive organ, and ti v ;y, the impressions it receives from without ,; -i, j-through j-through the media of sense which are dire, i! ,,.. pendent on the conditions of light and ati;..,-t,i;. r,, for their action, and therefore .immediately I -(hi-onced by the surrounding conditions. It is ,, . mon sense inference that, if the impressions -:m without reach the mind through imperfectly ;,etti organs of sense, and thosi impressions are in themselves them-selves set in a minor aesthetic key of color, s. ,);,! and general qualities, the mind must i- what j, called "moody." It is not the habit of even sen-.il,!,. people to make sufficient allowance for tin- r.vi,n- ale of dullness and subjective weakness.-. Seme persons are more dependent on external .ircum-stances .ircum-stances and conditions for their enory than t Iut-, but all feel the influence of the world without. ,n,, to this influence the sick and the weak are especially espe-cially responsive. Hence the varying temperaments tempera-ments of minds changing wi'h the weather, the .mr-look .mr-look and the wind. |