Telepathic Transfer of Brain Action. 903 



friend were observed to be in close communication for a long time. 

 Next morning the dog started to accompany the wagon to town, and no 

 orders nor threats of the farmer could keep him from following at a 

 safe distance. When they reached the neighborhood of the ill-bred 

 dog, he bounded past the wagon, and before the ugl} T beast could begin 

 his customary attack, he assailed him in so vigorous a manner as to 

 send him off howling with pain and terror. This done, he started back 

 home of his own accord. The offending dog never troubled that horse 

 again. Was there not some sort of thought transference from the 

 horse to the dog, and purposive plan laid out by the latter? In what 

 language was this confab carried on, if it was not simple impression ? 



A story from Wiltshire, England, is told in the Spectator. A lady 

 visited a country place, which had a deer park, separated from the 

 house by a lake 150 yards wide in the narrowest part. There were also 

 two dogs, with which the visitor became well acquainted, a large collie, 

 called Jasper, and his close friend, Sandie, a Skye terrier. One after- 

 noon the visitor and the dogs started out for a walk. Coming to the 

 lake the lady got into the boat and pushed off without considering the 

 dogs. The big one swam after her, and when about half way over, 

 they were startled by a wail from Sandie, who was running up and 

 down the bank afraid to venture. Jasper looked appealingly into the 

 lady's face and swam around the boat, but as she took no action he 

 made for the shore, where there was a moment's silent pause, after 

 which Jasper took a position half in and half out of the water, where- 

 upon Sandie scrambled onto his back, his front paws resting on Jas- 

 per's neck, who then swam across the lake, and landed him safely in 

 the deer park. 



If the lower animals possess this power of thought transference, it is 

 easy to see how such power would be lessened by an increase of ideas. 

 We have seen that in hypnotism the aptitude of the percipient is greatly 

 intensified by the simple process of temporarily reducing the number of 

 ideas present to his consciousness, and in like manner the effectiveness 

 of the agent depends on his power of excluding from his consciousness 

 all ideas foreign to the one he wishes to transfer, and distracting from it. 

 Amongst the lower animals the distractions from a variety of ideas are 

 greatly reduced, and to the extent to which this reduction in number is 

 carried, do the ideas remaining become instinctive, because the fewer 

 they are the oftener they come into use, and the more firmly they are 

 fixed. To the extent to which the ideas are instinctive, therefore, are 

 they exclusive and persistent. This persistency is shown in such ac- 

 tions as that of the sphex. which went through the same maneuver of 

 going down into her nest forty times in succession, when the sequence 

 of her instinctive movements were disturbed and set back that often. 



