The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

LOVELINESS OF SPIRIT. 119
?*imilar circumstances would have so moved this fierce
'jallic
barbarian, even had he used the same words.
Why, then, did Marius affect him so powerfully ?
There w^as uncommon might and power m his
great
spirit. He possessed extraoidinary energy of mind,
which, from a habit of commanding others, he had
learned to throw into his words and looks. Tlius
his mind acted, beyond the power of the
mere words
ho uttered, upon the mind of the soldier, and con*-
pletely paralyzed his action All minds possess this
attribute of expressing theii qualities through words
and looks, and are constantly making impressions
upon other minds thereby, according to the
kind and
measure of their power.
This ])ower of the mind to act on others by spiritual
impressions is one of its most surpi sing qualities,
and perhaps, from the constancy of it. operation,
its chief source of influence. And as is the mind, so
is the impression it makes. As the image nmst first
be in the die before it can impress the coin, so m.ust
the impression made upon other minds exist first in
the spirit of her who makes it. Hence the impossi-