It has its seat in the region of sense rather than of thought.

Yet it produces a continuous and, as it were, logical sequence of emotional and intellectual changes; but how different from trains of thought proper! how entirely beyond the reach of symbols!--Think of human passions as compared with all phrases! Did you ever hear of a man's growing lean by the reading of "Romeo and Juliet," or blowing his brains out because Desdemona was maligned?
There are a good many symbols, even, that are more expressive than words.

I remember a young wife who had to part with her husband for a time.

She did not write a mournful poem; indeed, she was a silent person, and perhaps hardly said a word about it; but she quietly turned of a deep orange color with jaundice.

A great many people in this world have but one form of rhetoric for their profoundest experiences,--namely, to waste away and die.