Dr. Starbuck gives an interesting, and it seems to me a true, account -- so far as conceptions so schematic can claim truth at all...

It is difficult to say whether Mr. John Dounce's red countenance, illuminated as it was by the flickering gas-light in the window before which he paused, excited the lady's risibility, or whether a natural exuberance of animal spirits proved too much for that staidness of demeanour which the forms of society rather dictatorially prescribe.

The lower the discriminating conceptual power the more the facts are misgathered, i.e. the greater the misinformation – and vice versa .

Yet, some broncs will be rebels for a lifetime. A lifetime for a horse is usually under thirty years.