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this power over animals and are unconscious of exerting it 

 is no proof that the power does not exist. Hypnotism, 

 though old in essence, is in practice very lately out of its 

 infancy, yet making vast progress. Several physicians of 

 my acquaintance are making use of it with most satisfac- 

 tory results, even employing it in place of antiseptics when 

 performing dental and surgical operations. So rapidly has 

 this subject developed of late in the medical world that one 

 of the most successful physicians of to-day says : " Within 

 ten years from now no student of medicine will be consid- 

 ered master of the profession unless he is able to command 

 this power." If this mind power between man and man 

 is the same as that between man and beast, we have proba- 

 bly what may be termed a working hypothesis covering 

 the whole field and reasonably accounting for many other- 

 wise unaccountable things in the way of horsemanship. 



We noticed, under the subject of mind-power manifesta- 

 tions as between man and man, that the one common fac- 

 tor prevailing in all is consent, which has its parallel in the 

 relation between man and beast, called by whatever name. 

 In all hunting countries there is a saying that in order to be 

 successful in horsemanship one must first get on good terms 

 with one's mount. Getting on good terms with a horse is 

 merely obtaining his consent to be governed. If these 

 things be true, it brings us to the conclusion that this power 

 emanates from the same source, whether exercised between 

 man and man or between man and beast, and the working 

 hypothesis we have set out to establish may be summed up 

 as follows : ( i ) there exists a mind-power control between 

 man and man; (2) there exists a mind-power control 



