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He had already derived much hope from the monumental work of Meyers and his school Hundreds of cases of hallucinations, alternating personality, hysterio-epilepsy, and other kindred apparent abnormalities, had been studied by oing at the will of an operator The latest word of theseThey had deer a necessary part of hypnotism That the subject would not follow out in trance any iestion which he would not do in conscious state; and, "There is no great physical difference between the normal and the hypnotic state," he read; "the real mental difference lies in the teestion, and this removal does not imply an inhibition of faculty, but an actual extension or liberation of faculty"

In fine, theseback, by its very structure, to the beginning of organic life, was limited by consciousness to a comparatively small number of its potentialities, whereas its subliminal life (on the contrary) was infinite and unsearchably subtle Allpowers, but only now and then, through unusual favoring circumstances, was the brain able to manifest its depth and subtlety Sickness, sleeplessness, physical shock, some accidental series of events now and then permitted a display of these hidden acquirements, and thereafter the individual wasto the ancient view, by angels or devils

Others still, by putting themselves deliberately into the study, had been able to subordinate the conscioustheir subli thus almost miraculous powers In this way the "medium" became clairvoyant, clairaudient, telekinetic In other cases still, as in Viola's case, this subordination of the supra-liestion of others, by submission to the will of others

He had been profoundly instructed by Tol personality which he had studied with so much care The fact that the secondary self appeared when the subject's life seemed at a lower ebb, and when the cerebral centres were sparsely supplied with the life-current, and the further fact that the use of a certain substance which stiher brain-centres, was able to bring back the primary or supra-liht upon Viola's condition, for had she not in her trance become inert, cold, and al, and as he studied its appearance in the phial, so minute, so colorless, so helpless in its prison, he felt once again the mystery of matter, and smiled to think how childish was the popular conception of the physical universe as so is more mysterious