This is, of course, done by just setting the problem, or question, or
dilemma, before ourselves as clearly as we can, so as to know our own
minds as well as possible. This done, sleep on it, with the resolute
will to have it recur on the morrow in a clear and solved form. And
should this occur, do not proceed to pull it to pieces again, by way
of improvement, but rather submit it to another night's rest. I would
here say that many lawyers and judges are perfectly familiar with this
process, and use it habitually, without being aware of its connection
with hypnotism or will. But they could aid it, if they would add this
peculiar _impulse_ to the action.

What I will now discuss approaches the miraculous, or seems to do so
because it has been attempted or treated in manifold ways by sorcerers
and witches. The Voodoos, or black wizards in America, profess
to be able to awaken love in one person for another by means of
incantations, but admit that it is the most difficult of their feats.
Nor do I think that there is any infallible recipe for it, but that
there are means of _honestly_ aiding such affection can hardly be
denied. In the first place, he who would be loved must love--for that
is no honest love which is not sincere. And having thus inspired
himself, and made himself as familiar as possible, by quietly
observing as dispassionately as may be all the mental characteristics
of the one loved, let him with an earnest desire to know how to secure
a return, go to sleep, and see whether the next day will bring a
suggestion. And as the old proverb declares that luck comes to many
when least hoped for, so will it often happen that forethought is thus
fore-bought or secured.

It is known that gifts pass between friends or lovers, to cause the
receiver to think of the giver, thus they are in a sense amulets. If