A NOVEL THEORY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 357, 20 February 1880, Page 15

A NOVEL THEORY.

Db. Jag En, a Stuttgart professor, has. if we may credit the London Telegraph, after patient experiments with his nose proved that organ to be the seat of his soul. "My researches," says the professor, " have assured me that the scat of the immortal part of man is his nose. More than this, I can, by going into a room, tell at once by sniffing whether those who were in it last were sad or mirthful."' This apostle of the human nose biings the great theory which he has developed from his diagnosis down to the practical matter of the nose as the organ of smell ; and Lc shows how different odours produce different aspirations and emotions of the soul — impulses towards love, hate, laughter, grief, religion, trade, patriotism or dinner. Thus, through the nose we may mould the character and reach the soul. Dr. Jager has coustructed instruments for registering the wave-motion of smells on the nose or soul, and showed his audience, in a recent lecture, on the blackboard, the curves taken by the scent atoms when stiiking on the soul nerves. Finally, he professes to have discoverod "a smell-murdering essence, christened oxogene, with which I can soothe the angry man to mildness or infuriated a Quaker.

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