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Questioning the reality of influence appears to fill us with misery. Appears to? The emergence of misery from the question appears to be intangible. Even its intangibility is intangible. It is more a matter of sequence and logic, than tangibility, or direct perception. We go to the question, and feel miserable. It is reasonable that that should be so - though, why happiness is associated with influence is, in its turn, not readily explicable. It is more a definition of what we are, than what we are is an explanation of it. We turn from the apparent source of the unpleasant sensation ...