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nomenon so opposed to natural laws, that I seek in vain for its 

 satisfactory explanation. 



I have already remarked that the exclamation of a startled latah 

 is always characterised by indecency, and connecting these two 

 extremes of my subject, I cannot but think that the whole of this 

 mental anomaly might possibly be traced to some structural pecu- 

 liarity which has hitherto escaped the specialist's attention.* 



H. A. O'BETEN. 



*I have been collecting for some time past crises as regards latah subjects who have 

 also committed amok, but facts I have collected are as yet" too sparse for me to venture 

 upon any matured generalization. 



That the mental fact underlying the two "diseases" are identical, I have no sort of 

 doubt, and I hope to be able soon to shew that this is so by those valued figures 

 which cannot lie. 



At present, however, whether from defective information, or from wilful misinformation, 

 here is a flaw in my premises which destroys, as far as Arithmetic is concerned, mj 

 whole induction. 



