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motor. The type of the image resulting, from the fus- 

 ing of these images, i. e., the percept, depends upon 

 the type of the organism. The degree of perfection of 

 the nerve structure determines the type of the image. 

 The images, are the same as the feelings, and are the 

 result of a process of nerve molecular motion. 



"To know, to understand, to explain, to know the 

 why, and the how of things, all this culminates in an 

 act of vision." (Alfred Binet.) 



But, if the image is an essential element of human 

 knowledge, it must be produced by a sensation, from 

 what to us, is a real thing. How then can the induced 

 hallucinations of the subject of hypnotism be ex- 

 plained? The experimenter in hypnotism makes the 

 subject see, or feel, or hear, a thing that does not exist. 

 Likewise the hallucinations of the insane are real 

 images produced by the diseased conductive paths of 

 association, upon the brain centers. When insanity 

 exists, it is an abnormal working of the molecules of 

 the brain, in producing images. In such case, the 

 image will be an abnormal one, that is, a defective, or 

 untrue pattern of objectivity, because the psychical 

 device is out of order, by disease. 



In the subject of hypnotism, who has a weak brain, 

 the first image may be produced on the auditory cen- 

 ter, by the suggestion of the operator, e. g., that the 

 subject is a king. The conductive cross fibres from 

 the visual center are immediately excited, by the audi- 

 tory image, to produce any former experiences the sub- 

 ject may have had by having seen, or heard, or read 

 of a king, and his retinue, in short, all the accom- 

 paniments, and surrounding of royalty. The variety 

 and complexity, of the associative image, will depend 

 on the intelligence of the subject. The absurdity, and 



