Part 28

Mesmer, Friedrich Anton, 14, 25, 36, 43, 180; his theories, 181, 189; his practices, 181, 190, 191; his Parisian career, 182-189; the commission to examine, 185-187, 192, 193; his attitude, 187; caricatures of, 188; his status in regard to Hypnotism, 191, 192.

Metaphor, in relation to analogy, 248, 264, 270.

Mind, its influence over body, 26, 37, 38; mortal, 28, 29.

Mind-reading; see Muscle-reading.

Miracles; see Supernatural.

Muscle-reading, 308, 324.

Myth, in relation to analogy, 270.

Names, their use in Magic, 243-245, 257.

Nancy, School of, 230.

Numbers, in Magic, 258; in relation to analogy, 259.

Observation, defects of, 87, 153-155.

Occult, nature of, 3; motives that incline to the, 4, 39, 40, 43; conditions that favor the, 5, 57; persistence of, 46; antidote to the, 46.

Occult Healing, 25, 26, 33, 34; varieties of, 34, 35; by absent treatment, 36; extravagances of, 35, 37.

Od, 225.

Omens, 243, 253; by contraries, 250; in dreams, 255-257.

Oudet, Dr. ----, 204, 215.

Palmistry, 18; interest in, 23; logic underlying, 23.

Perception, 106, 108, 110; as determined by interest, 119; and expectation, 120.

Personal interpretation of events, 17, 40-42, 56, 84.

Pétetin, ----, 197, 198; his transposition of the senses, 199.

Phrenology, 18, 171; interest in, 23; logic underlying, 23.

Physiognomy, 18.

Podmore, Frank, 10, 162, 164, 167.

Prepossession, 44, 120, 126, 127, 130, 131, 151, 162-166, 296, 297-300; a noteworthy illustration of, 301-304.

Pseudo-science, 5, 20, 21, 24; temper of, 22; practical aspect of, 18, 21, 25; varieties of, 35.

Psychical Research, the programme of, 50; the trend of, 51, 62, 75-77; interests contributing to, 56-58, 63, 65, 66; the problems of, 67; relation to Psychology, see Psychology.

Psychology, scope of, 51; relation to Psychical Research, 52-56, 58-61, 64, 65, 76; difficulties in teaching, 298.

Puységur, Marquis A. M. J. Chastenet de, 194; his discovery of somnambulism, 194, 195; his views and status, 196, 197.

Quackery, 25.

Reichenbach, Baron, 225.

Rydberg, ----, 266, 267.

Salpêtrière, 202, 228, 231.

Scherer, ----, 366.

Science, the spirit of, 48; the nature of, 49; and error of, 69.

Sensation, and perception, 106, 107.

Seybert Commission, 140, 141, 158.

Sidgwick, Mrs., 141, 157.

Sight; see Vision.

Signatures, doctrine of, 264.

Sinnett, A. P., 10, 11.

Slade, Henry, 139, 140, 141.

Somnambulism, artificial, 197, 198.

Spiritualism, 12, 27, 44, 125; manifestations of, 13, 128, 131; origin of, 14, 15, 137, 166, 167; doctrines of, 15, 161, 165; present status of, 16, 18, 169; fraud disclosed in, 140, 141, 142-145, 146, 157, 159.

Spiritualists, temper of, 16, 17.

Statistics, in relation to mental problems, 84-86.

Subconscious, 70, 79, 92, 108, 128, 129, 308.

Suggestion, 230; unconscious, 68, 174, 186, 199, 211, 233.

Sully, James, 111, 345.

Supernatural, divergence between report and fact, 153, 155, 158; conflict with science, 174.

Superstition, 252, 254, 258; in relation to analogy, 253; in medicine, 259.

Survivals, 240, 248, 269, 274.

Symbolism, in relation to analogy, 248, 249, 270.

Sympathy; see Magic, sympathetic.

Telepathy, 72, 73, 78; logical status of, 74; evidence for, 96-98, 103; validity as an hypothesis, 99; inclination toward, 104.

Theosophy, 7, 27; Mr. Hodgson's investigation of, 8, 9; alleged miracles of, 9, 10; doctrines of, 11, 12.

Thought-habits, in children and savages, 251, 271, 272.

Triplett, Norman, 117, 123.

Tylor, ----, 167, 240, 242, 250, 253, 256, 267, 270, 273.

Tyndall, ----, 135.

Unconsciousness of defects, 79, 80; see also Subconscious.

Unknown, attitude toward the, 49.

Unusual, in relation to analogy, 250, 260.

Vision, its nature, 276, 337; subjective and objective, 276; subjective factor in, 277, 279, 280, 283, 288-295; interpretation in, 285, 286-295; education of the visual centre, 341, 345-347, 369, 370; its function in dreams, 339.

Visualizing power, 338.

Zöllner, ----, 139.

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Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographical errors were repaired, but period spellings and hyphenation inconsistencies were retained.

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