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sciously,' and iu that state affected the sequence of our 

 ideas. 



Reply. Here again we have a choice between more 

 plausible explanations. Either B was consciously there, 

 but the next instant forgotten, or its brain-tract alone was 

 adequate to do the whole work of coupling A with C, with- 

 out the idea B being aroused at all, whether consciously 

 or 'unconsciously.' 



lourth Proof. Problems unsolved when we go to bed 

 are found solved in the morning when we wake. Somnam- 

 bulists do rational things. We awaken punctually at an 

 hour predetermined overnight, etc. Unconscious thinking, 

 volition, time-registration, etc., must have presided over 

 these acts. 



Reply. Consciousness forgotten, as in the hypnotic 

 trance. 



Fifth Proof Some patients will often, in an attack 

 of epileptiform unconsciousness, go through complicated 

 processes, such as eating a dinner in a restaurant and pay- 

 ing for it, or making a violent homicidal attack. In trance, 

 artificial or pathological, long and complex performances, 

 involving the use of the reasoning powers, are executed, of 

 which the patient is wholly unaware on coming to. 



Reply. Rapid and complete oblivescence is certainly 

 the explanation here. The analogue again is hypnotism. 

 Tell the subject of an hypnotic trance, during his trance, 

 that he tvill remember, and he may remember everything 

 perfectly when he awakes, though without your telling him 

 no memory would have remained. The extremely rapid 

 oblivescence of common dreams is a familiar fact. 



Sixth Proof In a musical concord the vibrations of the 

 several notes are in relatively simple ratios. The mind 

 must unconsciously count the vibrations, and be pleased by 

 the simplicity which it finds. 



Reply. The brain-process produced by the simple ratios 

 may be as directly agreeable as the conscious process of 

 comparing them would be. No counting, either conscious 

 or 'unconscious,' is required. 



Seventh Proof. Every hour we make theoretic judgments 

 and emotional reactions, and exhibit practical tendencies, 



