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and the two servants, though (indeed) I had no reason so 

 to think e, for they were both my father's servants, and 

 hee had never plaied in the house before. The juggler 

 also did cause a garter to be held up, and tooke upon him 

 to know that such an one should point in such a place 

 of the garter, as it shoulde be neare so many inches to 

 the longer end, and so many to the shorter. And still 

 hee did it, by first telling the imaginer, and after bidding 

 the actour thinke." 



In the case in which one person is said to be 

 "unable to refuse anything" the will would also seem 

 to be affected to a certain extent in the same way. 

 As the stronger person chooses the weaker person 

 must needs say yes or no in words or deeds. The case, 

 as it would seem, is not remotely akin to that about 

 which Bacon speaks, or to the cases which are referred 

 to mesmerism, or electro-biology, or hypnotism cases 

 to which one day a good deal more attention must be 

 paid than is paid at present. Possibly, a time will 

 come when the story told by Bacon will be found to 

 have an important bearing upon the interpretation of all 

 these cases. Possibly, when the matter is more care- 

 fully looked into, the tongue will be found to be con- 

 tinually testifying to the same effect, not only in saying 

 yes or no, with little or no choice on the part of the 

 speaker, but in much more lengthened utterances. I 

 once knew, for example, a bright little english girl 

 about five and a half years of age who could speak 

 english or french or german with equal readiness, but 

 who was unable to choose the language in which she 

 had to speak. If spoken to in english she answered in 

 english, and so also for french or german. She had a 

 nursery governess, a german, who spoke french and 

 english as well as her native language, and she it was 



