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surroundings. This law is likely to gain ground, as years advance, on the previous law; and both, as arising from the accident of circumstances, need to be guarded against by a self-contained spirit. We should be servants neither of the old nor the new.

A fifth law is, The feelings of men are harmonized and greatly increased by sympathy, they are divided and intensified by repugnance. We tend decidedly to share or to reject the feelings of those about us. The one impulse is that of sympathy, the other that of repugnance. A certain contagious force belongs to emotion. The swell of sentiment among masses, like the surge of the ocean, is heavy, forceful, dominant. It is difficult to maintain feelings which are not shared by those about us; it is difficult to escape the influence of those which are prevalent. The minds of men flow into each other, and come to feel and propagate, with increasing power, the same influences. Sympathy, strictly so called, does not change .the character of a sentiment, it only disseminates it. The inflammable nature of the feelings by which assemblies, mobs, armies are laid open to conflagration, each firing his neighbor, till all are caught up in one uncontrollable frenzy, is a very familiar fact. A less significant fact is that of repugnance. If a division already exists between men, as in classes, or in religious faith, that division is broadened by repugnance. All tyranny and cruelty are enhanced by this law. The tears of an enemy beget contempt and aversion, not pity. Laughter we do not share seems to us foolish. If we join in a joke at our own expense, its sting is lost; if we do not, the amusement of others angers us.

A sixth law is, Objects and acts have, in reference to the feelings, intrinsic quality and associative quality. The last quality, which is frequently the stronger of the two, and may be more or less in conflict with native force,