GLOOMY THOUGHTS AND GLOOMY WEATHER.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3199, 21 May 1879, Page 3

GLOOMY THOUGHTS AND GLOOMY WEATHER.

Dull, depressing, dingy days produce dispiriting reflections and gloomy thoughts, and small wonder when we remember that the mind is not only a motive, but a receptive organ, and that all the impressions it receives from without reach it through the media of senses which are directly dependent on the conditions of light and atmosphere for their action, and therefore immediately influenced by the surrounding conditions. It is a common-sense inference that if the impressions from without reach the mind through imperfectly-acting organs of sense, and those impressions are in themselves set in a minor {esthetic key of colour, sound and general qualities, the mind must be what is called " moody." It is not the habit of even sensible people to make sufficient allowance for this rationale of dulness and subjective weakness. Some persons are more dependent on external circumstances and conditions for their energy—or the stimulus that converts potential into kinetic force— than others; but all feel the influence of the world without, and to this influence the sick and the weak are especially responsive. Hence the varying temperaments of minds changing with the j weather, the outlook, and the wind. — ! Lancet. <**"^