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BEING AND FACULTIES OF MAN. 



in Faraday's index may be made by any one, with two slips 

 of paper; one of them narrow, and a few inches long, being 

 wafered down to the table at right angles to the edge, or 

 to a tangent to that point of the edge F G H at G if the 

 table be round, and the other slip not wafered, but laid 

 down transversely on the first piece. This second paper 

 being about six or eight inches long, and an inch or two 

 broad, so that the fingers of a hand may rest upon it, when 

 pressing the table, thus : 



This simple arrangement is quite enough for ordinary 

 purposes where the table is a polished one, as the first 

 slip of paper A B, wafered to the table at A and B, with 

 the index line 1 1 upon it, will remain fixed, while the 

 paper C D, on which the fingers are to rest in pressing 

 the table, but not on that part of it which is over the 

 other slip A B, will move from right to left if there be 

 lateral pressure in the fingers, and the line E drawn 

 across its centre and connecting the line I I, and oc- 

 cupying the position of the dotted line when the papers 

 are first adjusted, will move to one side or other of the 

 index line I in the direction of the lateral pressure, and 

 so at once prove its existence. 



But Mesmerism, while it has much abated in interest 

 and modified its pretensions, has not been so satisfactorily 

 met by scientific intelligence. A good deal of confederacy 

 and imposture associated with many of its manifestations 



