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Baron Kaneko's address furnished a rare opportunity to test the truth of the frequent assertion that repressed emotion acts more powerfully on others than that which seeks free vent in outcry; as, with the bereaved, the " tearless grief " that agitates more sensibly than floods of tears. By the deep-seated law of contraries, repressed emotion quickens the imagination of the onlooker to supply out of his own feelings that the lack of which is cravingly felt, and all such natively self-evoked emotion works more vitally than that which is prompted from without. Shakespeare's famous speech of Mark Antony over Caesar's body is one long illustration of how the nearest way to set afire the passions of the Forum mob lies through such seemingly listless repression of the speaker's own, that, like a whirlwind fiercely rushing in to fill a vacuum, the cries and execrations of the populace will soon be heard rending the air in irrepressible wrath to do their own cursing for themselves, — always more enjoyable than having another do it for one.
From beginning to end — and it was nearly two hours long — Baron Kaneko's address was free from every trace of rhetorical declamation or vindictive passion, and was, on the external surface, the straightforward, logical discussion by a jurist and statesman of the points at issue between Japan and Russia.   The speaker himself,