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Title: How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Bray, Charles, 1811-1884. (from old catalog) Sizer, Nelson
Subjects: Phrenology Emotions
Publisher: New York, S. R. Wells & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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story of Dr. Fell, who had a pupil in his schoolbetween whom and himself there seemed to be a naturalantagonism, illustrates this faculty. Just before recess theboy had been busy writing something on his slate, andturned it over as he went out. The doctor, perhaps uncon-sciously to himself, was watching to find occasion of com-plaint against the boy, inquisitively turned over the slateand read the lines— * I do not like you. Dr. Fell,The reason why I can not tell;But this one thing I know full well,I do not like you, Dr Fell. This set the doctor thinking, and like a wise man, he triedby a course of justice and confidence to overcome the mu-tual repugnance. If we begin to manifest kindness towardone we do not hke, we soon conquer our unkind spirit;partly, perhaps, because by kindness we call out a kindlierspirit from the other toward ourselves; but chiefly becausethe exercise in ourselves of the feehngs of justice and kind-ness brings us into a happy and self-approving state of mind.
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GENL JOHN GLOVER.IMITATION. PLATE XXIV i Imitation. 16t bodily or material form. Imitation copies only that •material form, and where the feeling is strong it is*sometimes very difficult to distinguish the mere imita--*tion of an idea or feeling from the genuine feeling •itself. Imitation has a very powerful effect in forming andfashioning our minds and habits. It is owing to this •feeling, added to the force^of sympathy and association,.already spoken of, that, imperceptibly to ourselves, wetake the direction of our feelings and the tone of mind and manners from the age and society to which we be-long, and it is not without a strong effort that we canbreak through the spell which binds us to think, to feel,and to act with all around us. It is intended to makethe members of the social body more harmonious. Itinfluences us equally in less important concerns; ourgestures, our modes of speech, our habits of life, theregulation of our mutual intercourse, our dress—all fol-low the

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