198 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. CHAP. xvn. 



" It has been demonstrated to us that the magnetic 

 sleep may be produced under circumstances in which the 

 magnetized have not been able to perceive, and have 

 been ignorant of, the means employed to occasion it." 



"When a person has been already magnetized, it is not 

 always necessary to have recourse to contact, or to the 

 i passes,' in order to magnetize afresh. The look of the 

 magnetizer, his will alone, has often the same influence. 

 In this case one cannot only act upon the magnetized, 

 but throw him completely into the sleep, and awaken 

 him from this state without his being aware of it, out of 

 his sight, at a certain distance, and through closed 

 doors." 



" We have seen two somnambulists distinguish ivith 

 dosed eyes the objects placed before them; they have 

 designated, without touching them, the color and name of 

 cards; they have read words written, or lines from a 

 book. This phenomenon has occurred even when the 

 eyelids were kept closed by the fingers." 



" We have met with two somnambulists who possessed 

 the faculty of foreseeing acts of the organism, more or 

 less distinct, more or less complicated." 



" We have only met with one somnambulist who could 

 indicate the symptoms of the diseases of three persons 

 with whom she was placed in relation. We had, how- 

 ever, made researches on a considerable number." 



" The commission could not verify, because it had no 

 opportunity, the other faculties which magnetizers had 

 stated to exist in somnambulists. But it has collected, 

 and it communicates to the Academy, facts sufficiently 



