A Series of Repetitions.

The following quotation is an example of Type I., in which the leading thought is restated in a number of ways: The habit of too constant intercourse with spirits above you, instead of raising you, keeps you down. Too frequent doses of original thinking from others restrain what lesser portion of that faculty you may possess of your own. You get entangled in another man's mind, even as you lose yourself in another man's grounds. You are walking with a tall varlet, whose strides outpace yours to lassitude. The constant opera¬tion of such potent agency would reduce me, I am convinced, to imbecility.

I.	- CHARLES LAMB, Essays of Ella.