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CHAPTER V.
THE Gael's relations to mental and
BODILY states, NOT OBVIOUSLY COMING
TO HIM FROM WITHOUT, AND YET NOT
DISTINCTLY VOLUNTARY : THE USE, IN
AN INVERTED FORM, OF THE SAME PRE-
POSITION AIR, ON.
While, as has been seen, the Gael has to
bear the incubus of certain bodily and
mental affections, coming to him from with-
out, or perhaps rather from above, there
are also mental and bodily states, more or
less, as would seem, of his own making,
which do not thus, so to speak, bestride
his personality, but which, vice versa, he
gets atop of, bestriding them as the rider
does his steed. Thus, tha e aU' mhisg =