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Anybody can see from the workmanship--"
"Have it your way, Eames. Eighty-two years old, I was going to say, and
not yet paid for. They want some rich foreigner to produce the money.
They are counting on van Koppen, just now; an American millionaire, you
know, who comes here every year and spends a good deal of money. But I
know old Koppen. He is no fool. By the way, Eames, what do you think of
this discover of mine? Of course you have hear of the James-Lange
theory of the Emotions, namely, that bodily changes follow directly on
the perception of the existing fact and that our feeling of these same
changes as they occur is the Emotion. They developed the theory
independently, and got great credit for it. Well, I find--what nobody
seems to have noticed--that they were anticipated by Professor Maudsley.
I've got a note of it in my pocket. Here you are. PSYCHOLOGY OF MIND,
1876, pages 472-4 ET SEQ.; 372, 384, 386-7 ET PASSIM. What do you say?"
"Nothing. I am not interested in psychology. You know it perfectly
well.


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