men never signed their names to their work, but now the Name takes
precedence of the picture.

Therefore, as we go backward into the night of things, we find, though
we forget it all the time, that Instinct or the living in the Spirit
of Law, had its stars or planets which shone more brilliantly than
now, at least in Faith. Thus, there are two sources of Creation or
Action, both based on Evolution, one being unconscious and guided by
Natural Law, and the other which is conscious and grows out of the
first. Hence _cognito ergo sum_, which well-nigh all men really
understand as _cogito, ergo sum Deus_. Or we may say that they assume

"Because _I_ think, then God must _think_ like me!"

Now to come to Hypnotic thought, or suggested mental action. I would
infer that, according to what I have said, there may be two kinds of
mentality, or working of the mind--the one under certain conditions as
effective or resultant as the other; the first being--as it was in the
order of time--Unconscious or Instinctive; the other, conscious and
self-observant.

For the man who built a Romanesque Cathedral worked by the
suggestiveness of minds which went before him, or Tradition. He was
truly, as it were, in a kind of slumber; indeed, all life was more or
less of a waking dream in those dim, strange days. "Millions marched
forth to death scarce knowing why," all because they were _told_ to do
so--they felt that they must do it, and they did it. "Like turkeys led
by a red rag," says CARLYLE. And the red rag and the turkey is an
illustration of Hypnotism in one of the books thereon. Instinct _is_
Hypnotism.