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laneous stimulations from all the environment. But the new person is 

 much smaller. He has only a few ideas; only those the operator has 

 given him. The operator is his whole environment, and as the creature 

 cannot rise above his creator, whatever the operator says to him, goes. 

 The operator's command is the law of his being, and comprises his 

 sense of duty and his moral code. After all the commands of an 

 operator that are required to be obeyed after the first person wakes up, 

 have been obeyed, nothing more is heard of the second person; his 

 activity is ended, and unless the hypnotic condition is again brought on 

 and more suggestions and ideas added to him, he will remain asleep till 

 death ends both him and number one. The second person, like 

 the first, but better than the first, possesses the obscure power of meas- 

 uring time. Somehow he counts the days when so ordered, and conse- 

 quently so constructed, for in such case the order is the stimulation that 

 constructs. 



Professor Beaunis, on July 14th, 1884, hypnotized Mile. A. E., at 

 Nancy, and said to her, "On January 1st, 1885, at 10 a. m., you will 

 see me, I shall wish you a happy New Year, and then disappear. " 

 Accordingly on New Years day, 171 days after the order was given, at 

 10 a. m. , the lady heard a knock at her door. She said, "Come in," 

 and to her surprise she saw Prof. B. enter, and heard him wish her a 

 happy New Year; then saw him immediately go out again. She was 

 surprised, also, to see he had on a summer suit; it was the same he wore 

 when he gave the order. She looked out of the window to see him go 

 but saw no more of him. This hallucination when thus worked out be- 

 came incorporated as part of her first person; it was in fact, objective 

 to it the same as any other act worked out in the waking state. It was 

 a hallucination of the senses in the waking state. But the antecedent 

 reckoning of the time was performed entirely by the second person, as 

 in her waking state she knew nothing of the order given in the h}'p- 

 notic state. The professor was in Paris, and she in Nancy, on the day she 

 thought she saw him, but she could not be convinced it was a delusion. 



The second person built up by the operator chiefly or wholly through 

 the sense of hearing is, as observed above, necessarily a narrow person, 

 composed of only a few organs; but if the first person could be inhib- 

 ited completely, without involving the sensory organs and their avenues 

 to the brain, it is apparent how new sensory stimulations could go on, 

 if time enough were allowed, and build up a second person every way 

 equal to the first, and perhaps even superior to it. That this has actu- 

 ally occurred in nature is proved by the cases of Mary Reynolds, Felida 

 X. , and others mentioned in this chapter. The part of the brain com- 

 prising the first person in those cases became totally, or almost totally, 

 sunk in profound oblivion, while the environing stimuli continuing to 



