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ing been sent to a hospital, and anxious to find out the reason. 

 Being a very intelligent lad, ho became interested in his own case 

 at once, on learning a few of the facts, and ascertained by in- 

 quiry the various occurrences which have just been described. 

 Soon after this I lost track of him, and do not know whether any 

 similar attacks have since occurred. 



It would be easy to offer other illustrations of a condition of 

 mind very properly termed double consciousness. It is as if a 

 single individual had two separate and distinct personalities, 

 neither of which has anything in common with the other. All 

 associations, all memories of one condition seem to be blotted out 

 or suspended when the person is in the other condition. It is a 

 remarkable fact that such a state is usually produced by a blow 

 or a fall, and it is a well-recognized complication of railway in- 

 juries and of severe accidents that such a state of secondary 

 consciousness may follow for several hours or days, but in the 

 case here related nothing of this kind preceded the onset. And 

 it must be remembered that such a state of secondary conscious- 

 ness or abnormal personality may also be produced by hypnotic 

 suggestion. Persons who are hypnotized are in a condition 

 quite similar to that described as a state of secondary conscious- 

 ness that is, they have no recollection of what has happened 

 before they were put in the hypnotic condition, and after they are 

 awakened they have no recollection of what has happened in the 

 hypnotic condition. Yet in that condition they are able to reply 

 to questions intelligently, and if they are hypnotized a second 

 time their memory of what has occurred on the first occasion is 

 continuous with their memory of what occurs upon the second. 

 Such cases have been described with much care by Paul Janet. 



The same phenomena are observed in a less degree in somnam- 

 bulists, for what a sleep-walker may do one night he may undo 

 on a second night, though having absolutely no recollection of 

 either occurrence in his waking hours. 



There is no satisfactory explanation as yet found for these 

 extraordinary alterations of consciousness and personality, and 

 there is much opportunity for study and research in regard to 

 these peculiar conditions. They remain among the curiosities of 

 thinking, inexplicable yet interesting. 



Montenegro has long enjoyed a complete system of local goverDmont. 

 Among the people, three hundred thousand in nnmher, are five liundred vilhige 

 councils, elected every three years, ruled by popularly elected officers, levying 

 rates, distributing charities, appointing supervisors of education, whose duty it is 

 to deliver popular lectures on its advantages, "and finding the solution of the 

 problem of women's rights," says Mr. W. H. Cozens-IIardy, "in allowing women 

 to speak in the village meetings as long as they may wish, but to vote nut at all. 



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