532 Richard J. Anderson, 



to prove that a person easily impressed with a confirmed tendency to 

 imitate pose and gesture may unconsciously come away from a lecture, 

 having a fairly good summary of what was said, and show a mind 

 in action which is a fair reflection of the mind of the lecturer, so 

 that one finds the words, gestures &c., coined into mental metal again. 

 It may be noticed, however, that the person who has effected the 

 transformation may, one or two days after, give not merely the sub- 

 stance, but the actual voice, reproduced from a central (attuned) group 

 of cells. The same may happen with regard to music heard by people 

 with this unconscious, or conscious, power. First the probable reflex 

 of the mind of the singer, or, at least, the conscious singing part, 

 followed afterwards by the reproduction of the song, or songs. The 

 featural value of the superficial muscles has been recognized and urged 

 by observers. 



Lord Avebury's account of the treatment of intoxicated ants is 

 interesting, the picket threw the strange inebriates into the water, 

 and brought their friends back to the hive. There seems to be some- 

 times, if not frequently, a power of selection, after suggestive stimuli, 

 Mozart (and Shakespeare) has been quoted to illustrate the ''automatic 

 selective powers of genius". 



Stories of fairies have, apparently, been due, in part, to the little 

 notion that early men (like children) had of distance and size. This 

 knowledge comes from experience. Colour comes in. A puny child 

 suggested a "changeling". Acuteness of perception was, long ago, not 

 understood and therefore was thought to be the result of witchcraft. 

 Suggestion in Medicine led to the snail "cure" for frenzy, the hare 

 skin cure for laziness and the pulmonaria cure for phthisis, &c. Sug- 

 gestive signs are in use e. g. the test of maturity by offering the 

 person a doughy bun at dinner time. Judge a man's "character" 

 (integrity) by his worst, and his intelligence by his best acts. Sub- 

 stitute signs are Mnemonics and are like symbols in Algebra useful 

 until they have served their purpose. Differential suggestion enabled 

 Helmholtz to suggest a means for detecting a spurious bank note, 

 which if placed in a Stereoscope side by side with a real one will 

 enable one to see better "whether all the marks are in the same 



