840 Dynamic Tfieory. 



tally is kept in the consecutive action of the cerebral cells. The same 

 is true in those cases of Ir^pnotism in which the subject is commanded 

 to sleep till a certain hour, and obeys punctually. 



Akin to the automatic measurement of time, but even more remark- 

 able, is the automatic registration of direction. All kinds of animals, 

 from snakes up can keep tally of direction so that they cannot often be 

 lost. This facult}' is prominent among those races of men who use- it a 

 great deal, such as our Indians and Half Breeds. Peter Bottineau, 

 after tramping with a survej^or 1 for ten miles through the woods, 

 avoiding swamps by wide detours, was requested by the surveyor to set 

 the instrument in the direction of the point from which they had started. 

 He did so, correct!} 7 , as the line they ran back proved, although none of 

 the rest of the party had thought him right by 20 or 30 degrees. He 

 could give no account of his knowledge of the direction to the place 

 except that he knew ' ' because he had been there. ' 



We all possess a great number of buried memories which are never 

 aroused till we are assailed by some violent stimulation. A case is re- 

 lated of a woman who, while delirious with a fever, continued to repeat 

 sentences in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. After her recovery she said 

 she was entirely ignorant of those languages ; but it was ascertained 

 that she had once been the servant of a clergyman who was in the habit 

 of reading and reciting aloud in those languages, in her hearing. She 

 must have imbibed those memories in a semi-unconscious manner, and 

 they remained dormant until extraordinary conditions gave them activ- 

 ity and motor expression. Our consciousness never extends at an}" one 

 time to any considerable number of our ideas, seldom even to all those 

 related to the subject which may engage our attention. After a will is 

 made up, it is liable before it can be executed to be altered by a belated 

 stimulus from a half asleep cerebral organ, one which may have been in 

 unconscious abeyance for a long time. 



We are seldom ready to say what our idea or opinion upon any matter 

 is, and if we give an expression, we immediately become aware of its in- 

 completeness or inaccuracy, from new considerations which flow down 

 from the internal senses and reveal their existence to full consciousness 

 for the first time. 



No doubt the feeling of inspiration which has come to a great many 

 people in times past, has arisen from the unconscious automatic action 

 of the internal senses, the results of which have come into the conscious- 

 ness with a startling suddenness, which made it seem like a revelation 

 from some other intelligence. 



A gentleman related the following to Carpenter : " When at school, I 

 was fond of trying my hand at geometrical problems. One baffled me. 



1 Lewis Harrington. 



