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In Graves' disease the brain-cells show marked changes which are apparently the same as those produced by overwork, by the emotions, and by strychnin. In the postmortem examination of one advanced case it was found that a large number of brain-cells were disintegrated beyond the power of recuperation, even had the patient lived.
I have no right whatever to say that the idea of a certain solution excludes there in my mind the consideration of the books which I have read and of the discussions which I have heard. Emotions may be superadded. In short, a world of mental states may be held together by one act of attention.
Louder and harsher it grew till from a mere rumble it jumped to a rattle and clatter which suggested speed, violence, and a dozen conflicting emotions. Almost immediately came a further change, and one which left no doubt remaining. The clatter broke up into distinct and separate sounds.
I had acquired aggressiveness: an aggressiveness, however, differing in quality from the feeling I once would have had, for this arose from resentment, not from belief. It was impossible to live in the atmosphere created by the men with whom I associated especially at such a time without imbibing something of the emotions animating them, even though I had been free from these emotions myself.
There was something frankly appealing in his long, thin, ascetic looking face, and I found it irresistible. "All right," said I with a smile and a frown to express the conflicting quality of my emotions. "So be it. I'll get the coolers, but you must remember, my friend, that there are coolers and coolers, just as there are jugs and jugs.
Interesting, therefore, to a certain extent, as an unpaying audience may be interesting to an actor. Interesting, inasmuch as they could contribute to swell the bladder of his vanity, and follow in procession behind his chariot wheels. But he no longer cared to divine the shades of their emotions, or to busy himself in fathoming their exact mental attitudes in relation to himself.
The great plays of the past were made out of great stories, and the great stories are repeated in our days and can be heard wherever an old man tells us a little of what has come to him in living. Verse lends itself to the lifting and adequate treatment of the primary emotions, because it can render them more as they are in the soul, not being tied down to probable words, as prose talk is.
"My angel!" cried Alfred, struggling to control his complicated emotions; then gazing at the precious pair in his arms, he cast his eyes devoutly toward heaven, "Was ever a man so blessed?" Zoie peeped from the covers with affected shyness. "You love me just as much?" she queried.
The very mystery of her feeling, its complexity, its suddenness, its remorselessness these emotions worked together to deepen the sense of insult, of injury, with which she burned. "It is true, and you have no right to doubt it. You have no right."
He had said all perhaps more than all that could have been said by the dead friend with whose voice he spoke. But it was not their will that he should thus extinguish himself. The thunder of their acclamations rose deafeningly upon the air. He had played upon their emotions each in turn as a skilful harpist plays upon the strings of his instrument.
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