Talk And Inspiration

Good talk, says Olivcr Wendell Holmes, n ' TIig Poot at the Breafast ïable," is not a matter of will at all ; it dependa - 'ou kuow we aro all half materialista iow-a-day8 - on a cwtain amount of aeive congestión of thu brain, and that ■CT5IH5S wiicn it is foady and not before. I saw a man got up the other duy, in a leasant company, and talk away for five oinufes, evidemly by a pure effort of vill. His pcrson was good, nis voieo was jlcasant, but any one could see that it was ill inechanical labor ; he was sparring 'or wind, as the Ilon. John Mox-rissey, il. C., would express it. Preeeritly - Do you - boloved I am afraid you are ïot old enough - but do you remember ho days of the tinder-box, thu fliut and he steel ? Click '. click ! click ! - ah-h '. ie knucklea that time! click! click' a park has taken and is enting into the jlack tinder is a six-yoar-old eats iuto a, bhoet of gingor-bread. Prescntiy, after hammering away for lis five minutes with mere words, the Bparkofa happy expression tooksome-' where among the mantal combustibles, md tben-foi ten minutes we had a pretty wandeling, scintillating piiiy of eloquent bought, that enüvened, it' it did not kinlle :i 11 around it. If you want the real ihilosophy of it I will give it to you. Tlio lIianCH thought or expression struck the ïervous centei' of consciousness, as tlie owcl of a rider stings the flank óf a raeer. Away through all the telegraphio vu liutions of the nervous cords flashed the ntelligence that the brain was kindling, and must be fed with something or other or it would bum itself to ashos. And all ;he hydraulic ( ngines pourcd in thoir ctrlft blood, and tho firo kindled and thu flame rose ; for the blood is a streaia ;hat, like burning rock oil, at once kinlles, :nnl is itself the fuel. You can't order these organio processes, any more lliau a milliner can niake a rose. She can niake something that looks like it. moro or loss, uut it tases uil the foro he universo to finish and sweeten thut tlOMOUk in your button-holo; and you may be sure that wben the orator's braia is m a flame, wheO the poefs heait is in a tumult, it is BOraething mightiei thau he and his will that is dealing witk him. ■ nwmm