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 seen—but why multiply examples of hourly occurrence? Every one who pauses to note, will find them scattered in abundance around him. But can any kindly spirit, who is once induced to search out the causes of the grievous condition styled nervousness, ever regard its most tormenting phases as a theme for skepticism, anger, or mirth! As well might we pronounce the knell-like cough of the consumptive unreal, vexatious, or absurd!