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That indicates that the water is pressing gently against the rudder the ship carries a small weather-helm, as a well- modelled and properly rigged ship should and if you were to release the wheel it would move a spoke or two to the right, and the ship would run up into the wind.
That, in the fabric of knowledge, there should be any connection whatever between a woman with hysterics and a schooner carrying a weather-helm or heaving to in a gale, would have struck him as ridiculous and impossible. But Herbert Spencer had shown him not only that it was not ridiculous, but that it was impossible for there to be no connection.
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