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had kneeled down and prayed for the passengers on a steamhoat from 

 Albany to New York. 3 



He had heard of the singular experience of Ansel Bourne, but did 

 not know whether he had ever met Ansel Bourne or not. He had been 

 a professor of religion himself for many years, belonged to the " Christ- 

 ian " denomination, but back there everything was mixed up. He 

 used to keep a store at Newton in New Hampshire, and was engaged 

 in lumber and trading business ; had never been previously taken up 

 with the business which took him to Norristown. He kept the Nor- 

 ristown store for six or eight weeks. How he got away from there 

 was all confused ; since then it has been a blank. The last thing he 

 remembered about the store was going to bed on Sunday night March 

 13, 1887. He went to the Methodist church in the morning, walked 

 out in the afternoon, stayed in his room in the evening and read a 



During the enquiry, one of the most remarkable phenomena is the 

 utter failure of suggestion to combine the Bourne with the Brown 

 state, thereby demonstrating that suggestion is not the principal factor 



At 11.45 A. M., May 31, Mr. Hodgson hypnotizes Bourne, and, after 

 a couple of minutes, says, " What's your name? It's Bourne, is'nt it ? " 

 " No, it's Brown." Mr. Hodgson wakes him up and 



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is Brown. Other experiments were made on succeeding day- to con- 

 nect the two personalities, but vainly. On July 7, at 10 P. M., 

 Ansel Bourne was entranced by Mr. Hodgson who tells him he will re- 

 main Ansel Bourne after being hypnotized. In vain; he passes at 

 once into the Brown state. Mr. Hodgson then enumerates the chief 

 events of Bourne's life, telling " Brown " that he is " Bourne," and that 

 he remembers these events. This is repeated several times, and Mrs. 

 Bourne and Professor James reiterate the same circumstances. 

 " Brown," however, reaches nothing more than a faint remembrance 

 of the year of his birth, of his first marriage and of the death of his 

 first wife. It seems doubtful, though, if these remembrances were not 

 connected with the " Brown " state, because " Brown " always gave the 

 date of his birth (though not the place) correctly, and remembered he 

 had had a wife who was dead. 



* A detailed eu - and answers in this enquiry is given, but 



