certainly by one person upon another is undeniable, but this requires,
firstly, a susceptible subject, or only one person in three or
four, and to a degree a specially gifted operator, and very often
"heaven-sent moments."

"However greatly mortals may require it,
All cannot go to Corinth who desire it."

But forethought, self-suggestion, and the bringing the mind to dwell
continuously on a subject are absolutely within the reach of all who
have any strength of mind whatever, without any aid. Those of feebler
ability yield, however, all the more readily (as in the case of
children) to the influence of others or of hypnotism by a master.
Therefore, either subjectively or with assistance, most human beings
can be morally benefited to a limitless degree, "morally" including
intellectually.

We often hear it said of a person that he or she would do well or
succeed if that individual had "application." Now, as Application,
or "sticking to it," or perseverance in earnest faith, is the main
condition for success in all that I have discussed, I trust that it
will be borne in mind that the process indicated provides from
the first lesson or experiment for this chief requisite. For the
_fore-thinking_ and hypnotizing our minds to be in a certain state or
condition all the next day, by what some writers, such as HARTMANN,
treat as magical process--but which is just so much magical as the use
of an electrical machine--is simply a beginning in Attention and
Perseverance.

"So, like a snowball rolled in falling snow,