Suggestion
in psychology, may be defined as including all proposals to action or belief put into the mind of one person by another and which overcome resistance not by argument or reason, but by submission or subordination, whether conscious or unconscious, on the part of the recipient. Every human being is to some extent subject to the influence of others' suggestions, which may be communicated in numberless ways, as by spoken words or by subtle indirection, probably most commonly without intention. The explanation of this wide suggestibility is that the majority of our motives and actions are the outcome of numerous contending impulses which are often not unequal in their strength or weakness, so that if one is strengthened for a moment it may achieve complete preponderance. Otherwise the tendency to yield to suggestion resembles the instinct of imitation. It varies widely in different persons as well as under different conditions. Periods of emotion or fatigue or illness are highly favorable to suggestibility, which may also be increased by alcohol or drugs or by feelings of confidence, awe, or fear inspired by some person. The suggestibility of crowds is notorious, as is that of children and of persons on the witness stand.
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Suhl
a town of Prussia; province of Sachsen, at the base of the Domberg; 35 miles S. W. of Erfurt. It lies to the S. W. of the Thuringer-wald, and sheltered by the Ottilienstein, a cliff of porphyry. Its firearms have been famous for several centuries, and its steel and iron wares are of superior cuality. As its name indicates (Sorb- Wendish, "salt"), it was formerly a salt mining center. There are iron mines in the vicinity. A mineral spring rich in here chloride of calcium was discovered in 1878, and the authorities undertook place. Pop. about 14,500.
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Sui Juris
in the Roman law, the condition of a person not subject to the Patria Potestas. The paterfamilias was the only member of a family nily who was sui juris, all the rest be being alieni juris, including sons, unmarried daughters, the wife, and the wives and children of the sons of the paterfamilias. A son or unmarried daughter became sui juris on the death of the paterfamilias. In his father's lifetime a son could only become sui juris by emancipation.
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Suide
or SUIDA, in zoölogy, a family of artiodactyle mammals, of the Bunodont group (in which the crowns of the molars are tuberculated). The feet have only two functional toes, the other two being much shorter, and hardly touching the ground. Molars, incisors, and canines are present, the last very large, and, in the males, usually constituting formidable tusks projecting from the side of the mouth. The stomach is generally slightly divided, but is by no means so complex as in the Ruminantia. Snout truncated and cylindrical, capable of considerable movement , and adapted for rooting up the ground . The skin is covered with hair to a greater or less extent; tail very short , in some cases rudimentary. The family is divided into three well-marked groups or sub-families: Suinæ, true swine (Sus, Potamochœrus, Babirusa, and Porcula); Dicotylinæ (Peccaries, with the single genus D Dicotyles, often classed as a family); ; and Phacochœrinæ ( wart hogs, with one genus, Phacochœrus ). The family probably commenced in the Eocene Tertiary.
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Suir
a river of Ireland, flowing 85 miles S. and E., chiefly along the boundary of the counties of Tipperary, Waterford, Kilkenny, and Wexford, past Clonmel, Carrick, and Waterford, till it meets the Barrow, and immediately afterward falls into Waterford Haven. It is navigable by barges as far as Clonmel.
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Sukhomlinov
VLADIMIR ALEXin 1852. He took part in the Russo- Japanese War on the western frontier Russia, tant military posts in Russian Poland sia, and afterward held imporand on the Prussian frontier. He became Minister of War in 1909, resigning in 1915, during the World War. He was an excellent organizer and did much to develop aviation and other branches in the Russian army. tary officer; born in Rumelia in 1840.
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Sukkur
a town on the right bank of the Indus, 28 miles S. E. of Shikarpur; it is connected by rail also with Karachi (Kurrachee), and is the terminus of the Bolan Pass railway to Afghanistan magnificent cantilever bridge (1889), or rather by two bridges (one with a span of 820 feet), resting on the fortified island of Bukkur in the middle of the channel. New Sukkur, which grew up after the British occupied (1839) the fort on Bukkur, has considerable trade in silk, cloth, cotton, wool, opium, saltpeter, sugar, brass utensils, piece goods,
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Suleiman Pasha
a Turkish mili- He entered the Turkish army in 1854, fought in Montenegro, Crete, and Yemen between that date and 1875, and in the intervals of peace taught in the Military Academy at Constantinople, and finally presided greatly distinguished himself as a corps presided over it as director. He commander against the Serbians in 1876, and was in 1877 nominated governor of Russians declared war (1877) against Bosnia and Herzegovina. When the Turkey Suleiman checked them at Eski Zagra, and destroyed his army in heroic but vain attempts to force them from the Shipka Pass. In October he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Army of the Danube, but failed to accomplish anything, retreated behind the Balkans, and suffered defeat near Philippopolis (January, 1878). Brought before court-martial, he was condemned to be degraded and kept in a fortress prison doned him, for 15 years . The sultan, however, parnople Aug. 11, 1892. m, and he died in Constantia the borders of Afghanistan and British SULIMAN MOUNTAINS , a range on India. The highest summit, Takht-i- Suliman, or "Suliman's Seat," attains an elevation of more than 6,000 feet (according to some estimates 11,000 or ered with dense forests, and are gen- 12,000 feet) . These mountains are coverally considered the peculiar seat of the aboriginal Afghans.
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Sulina
the middlemost of the three Khedrile or most S. bra anu into the Black Sea after an E. course of branch , and opens over 50 miles (see DANUBE). It is used for transporting immense quantities of corn, chiefly for the British market. mixed Albanian and Greek descent, who
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