DOES THIS APPLY TO YOU?

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3217, 20 November 1900, Page 7

DOES THIS APPLY TO YOU?

As Gordon was even drawn towards the great African desert, and Captain Webb towards the boiling, roaring Niagara, eaoh feeling that he would loose his life in that particular place, co nearly every one of os is thus hypnotised into fear of some danger to existence. One man tears the mountain edge, and is yet drawn mysteriously towards the precipice until he feels and falls headlong into the abyss below, while another in opulent circumstances goes in dread of starvation. We eaoh of us have some weak point where our customary oourajre entirely deserts us ; why, WQ know not. And yet, if a record were kept, it would be found that there was good cause for our fear, for iv innumerable oases on record death has come in the form it was most dreaded. Napoleon feared that he would die wiihout pomp, and breathe his last surrounded by his captors. Livingstone always said that he would die away from white friends, in the centre of Africa, and although his faithful black followers strove to reaoh the coast with him when he was dying, he never saw it. Captain Riohard Burton wished to die out iv the desert away from civilisation, bnt always said that he felt sure that his wish would not be granted him ; and it was not. Psychologists oall this being hypnotised by Nature, and aver that no one is free from it in some fotm or other.