certain scientists do, but their follies are not
chargeable to _Science_, nor to the whole body of Scientists. The
ablest thinkers to-day, the deepest inquirers, look to the powers of
the soul, and the new anthropology traces these powers to their
localities in the brain.--ED. OF JOURNAL.]

"How old is this fact? As old as the race. At one time it was
called necromancy, at another witchcraft, at another the
inspiration of God, at a subsequent time animal magnetism, at
another called after one of its more modern
discoverers,--mesmerism--now hypnotism--which is only another
name for magnetic sleep--if anybody knows what that is--or for
somnambulism. Common sense tells common people that it is only
an abnormal manifestation of the power that gives one person
control over another, or enables one person to influence
another. The simple every-day habit of exacting a promise from
your neighbor to do a certain thing, or for you to make a like
promise, and execute it. Sickness is a partial compliance with
the conditions of mortality--death being the complete process.
So the hypnotic experiences are the completed illustrations of
the common power which we call personal influence. That is all.
But that is not mysterious enough for learned people--it is not
scientific enough--as everybody can understand it.

"Then, too, it suggests another thing that is fatal to it in the
estimation of the teacher--it suggests that what we call the
human mind or soul is a potential thing, that acts through the
every-day machinery of our bodies, and may be more or less
within the grasp of the common mind. There is a higher plane of
knowledge than that of mere physical science, and if the
theologian mistook its teaching, it is no reason why the pursuit
of that knowledge on this higher plane should be ignored. Hence
it is that this discovery by Charcot and others, to which we
allude, has as yet been barren of fruit, because the methods of
science to which the discoverers are wedded forbid the admission
of the psychic problem that underlies the remarkable phenomena.

"And just here, it may as well be said first as last,--that the
profession to which these eminent men belong, nor any one school
of applied science, will ever read the lesson of these
experiments, nor will any of the so-called regular schools of
learn