text:  Is it to consider the matter too curiously to conceive that the laws of nature affect the mind? or that the spirit of man resembles an instrument after all--an Aeolian harp which owes all its pulses to the gusts that pass across its strings and in which it simply depends upon the stronger or the feebler breeze whether it shall smile with joyous and triumphant chords or sink into throbs and sounds of sorrow? The galloping of horses roused me