"garrison," deserve the gratitude of society. May inquirers never rest
until the subject, not too difficult a one in the age of electricians
and physiologists, has been fairly cleared up.

There are one or two points in the study of the advanced combined
hypnotism--it is probably always criminal--which are worthy of notice.
One is that the operators generally, or always--(observation is
difficult)--repeat a phrase or its most important words. The first saying
of the word is barely noticeable. The repetition forces the word to the
subject's attention.

Secondly, speech is addressed to the right ear; the sufferer of course
declines attention to it, but this slight, almost automatic effort, yet
distracts attention from the left ear, and a communication to that ear is
unheard, but perceived as a thought.

To detect speech a very trifling pressure on the ear has to be watched
for. In a law court or in society the interest of what is going on knocks
the operators out.

A facility for receiving thought transferred makes a person perhaps more
susceptible to depression by dull or inferior people, but principle
partly cures this.

The art of dismissing obtrusive thoughts and persisting in one's own has
to be cultivated by people with the readiest perceptions.

Natural caution and a habit of studying probabilities are great helps
against such attackers; but, on the other hand, the man who drinks a
glass of wine when he feels low will beat the hypnotist, who will