to a certain false quantity or amount of base alloy in the most
thoroughly suggested patients. Something of modesty, something of a
moral conscience always remains. Thus, as Dr. COCKE declares,
Hypnotism has not succeeded in cases suffering from what are called
imperative conceptions, or irresistible belief. "Cases suffering from
various imperative conceptions are, while possessing their reasons,
either irresistibly led by certain impulses or they cannot rid
themselves of erroneous ideas concerning themselves and others." This
means, in fact, that they had been previously _hypnotised_ to a
definite conception which had become imperative. As in Witchcraft, it
is a law that one sorcerer cannot undo the work of another without
extraordinary pains; so in hypnotism it is hard to undo what is
already established by a similar agent.

_One can will to remember or recall anything forgotten_. I will not be
responsible that this will invariably succeed at the first time, but
that it does often follow continued determination I know from
experience. I believe that where an operator hypnotizes a subject it
very often succeeds, if we may believe the instances recorded. And
I am also inclined to believe that in many cases, though assuredly
not in all, whatever is effected by one person upon another can
also be brought about in one's self by patience in forethought,
self-suggestion, and the continued will which they awaken.

_We can revive by this process old well-nigh forgotten trains of
thought_. This is difficult but possible. It belongs to an advanced
stage of experience or may be found in very susceptible subjects. I do
not belong at all to the latter, but I have perfectly succeeded in
continuing a dream; that is to say, I have woke up three times during
a dream, and, being pleased with it, wished it to go on, then fallen