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the name of hills, it is obvious that there is no room 

 for the class of sheep farm to which this phraseology- 

 is usually understood as applying. But if the crofters 

 of these three farms refer to the thriving dairy farm of 

 Balephetrish, which is the only large farm within many 

 miles of them, I can only say that they refer to a farm 

 which has never at any time been in the hands of 

 the crofter class, and which they have no more claim 

 to possess than to possess, any farm in Lanarkshire 

 or the Lothians. 

 Complaints sug- I lay, however, very little blame to the tenants into 

 ge^ e e < n . ^^.j^^gg moutlis thcse irrelevant complaints have been 

 put. When men of that class are exposed to hearing 

 and reading every day one continually repeated and 

 reiterated set of stories, and when belief in these 

 stories is instilled into them by an active propaganda, 

 it is very difficult for them to resist the influence. 

 The result reminds me of what are called in mesme- 

 rism " the Phenomena of Suggestion." This result I 

 have myself seen. By very simple means the mind can 

 be thrown into such a state of passive credulity that 

 it will receive and accept everything and anything 

 that it is told, provided only that the tale is repeated 

 with sufficient frequency and with sufficient emphasis. 

 The very senses, though apparently awake, are made 

 to minister to the delusion, and the unfortunate " sub- 

 ject " speaks and acts in a world absolutely different 

 from that by which he is actually surrounded. I have 

 seen a man so influenced, in a room in Princes Street, 

 Edinburgh, made to believe that he was at market, 

 and that a piano in the room was a horse for sale. 

 Groundlessness of Possibly Something of this nature may account for the 

 complaints. dream of the tenants on the three farms in the north end 



