Part 14

Thought transference is the transference from one to another person of some feeling, sensation or idea. The person from whom the thought is transferred is the _active_ agent, and the one who receives it is the _passive_ one. Often this phenomenon takes place spontaneously, as when one is in trouble, or at the point of dying, a knowledge of it may sometimes be transferred to an intimate friend who is in sympathy. In the hypnotic state, thought transference can sometimes be induced artificially; and the point here to be considered is the transference to the child of healthy normal sensations to replace the abnormal ones which may have taken possession of consciousness and caused trouble.

The important thing always to have in mind in using psychic forces on children is to instil natural, or normal, conditions, not unnatural or abnormal ones. To this end to produce the best results, the active agent should be a normally healthy person, having good common sense, and living a normal, natural life. Those with sickly, sentimental or fanciful notions, if they try to use suggestion may transfer these states to the child, which would do harm rather than good.

INDEX.

Acquired characters, inheritance of, 71, 73, 77 _et seq._, 79, 90, 109, 111, _et seq._

Acquired characters not transmitted, 213

Adaptation to environment necessary for health, 149

Aesthetic sense displayed by animals, 28

Aesthetic surroundings during gestation, 95

Air, regarded as food, 174

Alcohol, as a poison, 91

Alcohol, effect of, on offspring, 171

Allen, Joseph A., observations of, as to effects of war on children, 200

_Allen, Grant_, 34, 48, 51, 180

Amphimixis, theory of, 76

Ancestral _ids_, 75

Ancestral tendencies, correction of, 126

Animals, practical superiority of man over, what?, 210

Animal flesh, supposed effect of eating, 63

Atavism in relation to disease, 83

Baby, a theoretical, 185 _et seq._

Bad habits, broken up by suggestion during mesmeric sleep, 214

Bad temper cured by hypnotic suggestion, 217 _et seq._

Beauty, reference of sexual selection to, 28

Bees, instincts of, 122

Berillon, Dr., on beneficial effect of hypnotism over bad habits, etc., 215

Birthmarks, 59, 68, 94

Blood, healthy, purifying influence of, 92

Blood, study of the, 140, 151

Bones, modification of certain, through sitting, 116

Boys, mortality among larger than with girls, 136

Breasts, best methods of developing, 209

Breasts, defective, women having, incapable of becoming mothers of a virile race, 209

Breasts, development of, after marriage and parentage, 209

Breasts, degeneracy of the, and motherhood, 208

Breeding in and in, Noyes' first principle for race improvement, 38

Camp life, evils of, 202

Cases of prenatal influences, 204 _et seq._

Cells, sexual, 110, 162

_Chandler, Jennie_, 97

Character, dependence of, on arrangement of nerve cells, 222

Character, improvement by suggestion, method to be employed by parents for, 223

Character of children affected by war, 201

Characteristics, origin of, through sexual selection, 134

_Charles, Havelock_, 116

Chickamauga Camp, prostitution at, 202

Children acquire special aptitudes from mothers, 205

Child bearing, best age for, 170

Children, breeding of, in Plato's Republic, 11, 12

Children considered as belonging to the State, 10 _et seq._, 22

Children, deaths of, in New York city, 139

Children, healthy, essentials for having, 168

Children, interests of unborn, 199

Children, characteristics of, in the Oneida Community, 39

Children in the Oneida Community, care of, 38

Children, mortality among, 136

Children, obstacle of war to production and training of, 203

Child training aided by suggestion, 214 _et seq._

Children, training of, 16 _et seq._, 52

Civil War and how it affected the character of children, 201

Co-adaptation of parts as evidence of transmission of acquired characters, 116

Coalescence of sperm and germ cells, 166

Concentrative power, want of, cured by hypnotic suggestion, 216

Conduct, knowledge of its object, not possessed by animals, 210

Congenital characters, transmission of, 177

Congenital deformities, 80

Consanguineous marriages among the Greeks, 23

Consanguineous marriages, regulations as to, among uncultured peoples, 21, 42

Consanguineous marriages, effect on offspring, 42

Constitution, bodily, improvement of the, 150

Consumption, causes of, 176

Consumption, tendency to, whether a bar to marriage, 176

Contentment, value of, 95

Continuity of germ-plasm, 107, 118

Co-operation, hygienic value of, 156 _et seq._

_Cope, Prof. E. D._, 59, 69

Cousins, marriage between, 43

Couvade, custom of the, 63 _et seq._

Crimes, increase of, caused by war, 201

_Darwin, Charles_, 28, 30 _et seq._, 73, 75, 85, 100, 105, 106, 109, 141, 179, 184

Death, causes of, 150

Deformities, congenital, 80

Degeneracy of the breasts and motherhood, 208

Degeneracy in offspring due to maternal degeneracy evidenced by inability to nurse a child, 208

Degeneration, evidence of, 140

Development of breasts after marriage and parentage, 209

Diseases, influence of hygiene over, 159

Diseases, inheritance of, 80

Diseases which affect offspring, 175

Disposition spiritualized through marriage of chastity, 210

Disproportion between accidental causes and effects, 68, 90

Diversity between offspring and parents, causes of, 58

Domestication of animals, 9

_Doutrebente, Prof._, 92

Drink, influence of, over offspring, 16

_Duncan, J. C. Mathews_, 170

Education, beneficial effects of hypnotism in, 215

Education and heredity, 111 _et seq._

Education and non-transmission of acquired characters, 124

Education of Spartan children, 15

Education, Plutarch on, 17

Education, study of laws of evolution, as part of, 125

Educational uses of hypnotism and suggestion, 220

Egg. See _Ovum_.

_Eimer, Dr. G. H._, 71, 79 _et seq._, 90

Embryo, how parental properties communicated to, 69

Embryology, importance of, 103

Energy, bodily, use and abuse of, 153

Environment, adaptation to, necessary for health, 149

Epigenesis, theory of, 104

Esquirol on the effects of the French Revolution over children, 200

Ethics of the body, hygiene as the, 160

Evolution, a superior race produced by, 130 _et seq._

Evolution, meaning of the term, 210

Evolution of the horse, 102

Evolution, study of laws of, as part of education, 125

Evolutionary theories, conflict of, with humane sentiments, 145 _et seq._

Example, influence of, over children, 18

Exercise, transmission of effects of, 111

Experiment in race improvement by Noyes, 37 _et seq._

Explanation of the action of hypnotic suggestion, 221

Family life, abolition of, in Plato's Republic, 10

Father rule should be combined with mother rule, 213

Fatherhood, too little importance assigned to, 212

Feeble constitutions prevent numerous offspring, 147

Fertilization essential to true germ plasm, 165

Fertilization, nature of, 166

_Fison, Lorimer_, 42

Fitness for survival, characteristics of, 140

Flat head Indians and heredity, 213

Flat head and round head tribes, comparison between, 213

Flat head not transmitted to offspring, 213

Flattening the skull, injurious effect of on health, 214

_Flint, Dr. Austin_, 88

Food, how it affects germ plasm, 173

Food (certain) injurious influence of, 94

Foot, compression of, by Chinese ladies, 20

Fosterage, 96

French Revolution, evil effects of over children, 200

_Galton, Francis_, 46, 50, 73, 106, 135, 170

Gemmules, essential to pangenesis, 105, 106

Generation, influences over, at time of conception, 57, 58

Generation, influences over, subsequent to conception, 58

Generative powers, debilitation of the, 84

Germ plasm and heredity, 107, 162

Germ plasm, continuity of the, 73, 74 _et seq._, 107, 118

Germ plasm, how affected by food, 173

Germ plasm, modification of the, 76, 80

Germ variations, causes of, 81

Gestation (period of) importance of pleasant surroundings during, 93

Gestation, maternal influence during, 96

Gestation, strong emotion during, effect of, 63, 94

Gestation, uterine disturbances during, 93

Girls, physical training of, among Spartans, 14

Girls, mortality among, smaller than with boys, 136

Great mothers, how constituted, 208

Group marriage of Australian natives, 21

_Haeckel, Ernst_, 109

_Harvey_, 103

_Haycraft, John Berry_, 143

Head flattening, 20

Health, action of nature in relation to, 130

Health, transmission of, by thought transference, to young sick child, 224

Healthy localities enable the healthiest offspring to be reared, 210

Health, adaptation to environment necessary for, 149

Health, ideal of, 148

Health, importance of, in relation to marriage, 135, 168, 171

_Hearn, Professor_, 67

Hedonism, New, 48

Hereditary tastes of children, 204 _et seq._

Heredities, antagonistic, of two parents, 58

Heredity among Flat-head Indians, 213

Heredity, definition of, 100

Heredity and education, 111 _et seq._

Heredity, evils arising from, may be cured, 35

Heredity, exceptions to law of, 58

Heredity and germ plasm, 107

Heredity, importance of knowledge of, by teachers, 125

Heredity, modification of law of, 99

Heredity, preponderating influence of, 69, 89

Heredity, rational view of, 109

Heredity, spectre of, 127 _et seq._

Heredity, theories of, 73 _et seq._

Heredity, transformation of, 83

_Hering, Richard_, 70

Hidery tribes of British Columbia, 214

High-pressure, effects of living at, 152

Hypnotic sleep, differs from ordinary sleep only in degree, 223

Hypnotic suggestion, value of, as aid to education, 216

Hypnotism as suggestive therapeutics, 214

Horse, evolution of the, 102

Human selection, plans for, 135 _et seq._

Human kind, regarded as a whole, should be benefited by our conduct, 211

Human race, further improvement of impossible, if marriage relation be regarded only from standpoint of sexual indulgence, 210

Humane sentiments, conflict of, with theories of evolution, 145 _et seq._

Husband and wife, tendency to resemble each other, 89

_Huth, A. H._, 42

Hygiene, modern, as opposed to natural selection, 142 _et seq._

Hygiene, as the ethics of the body, 160

Hygiene, promises of, 158 _et seq._

Hygienic laws, punishment for infraction of, 161

Hygienic surroundings, importance of, 139

Hygienic training, value of, 151

Ideal of Health, 148

Idiots, education of, 25

Illustrative cases of prenatal influence, 60 _et seq._

Imagination, effect of, on unborn offspring, 55 _et seq._

Improvement of race. See _race improvement_.

Incas of Peru, consanguineous marriages among the, 23

Income, bodily, importance of living within, 152

Individual, the, as the beginning and end of the race, 50

Individuality, development of the, 126

Infanticide among Spartans, 15

Infanticide, former general prevalence of, 19

Infanticide in Plato's Republic, 11

Infanticide not morally permissible, 24

Inheritance of acquired characters, question as to the, 71, 73, 77, 79, 90, 109, 111 _et seq._

Inheritance, organic, wonders of, 101

Injuries during life, transmission of, 79 _et seq._

Injury to health through flattening the skull, 214

Instinct, explanations of origin of, 121

Instincts of the race for children, loss of, 208

Instruction and education, difference between, 210

Intelligence affected by head flattening, 214

Jacob, rods of, 56

_Jeune, Lady Mary_, 47

_Jowett, Professor B._, 25 _et seq._, 34

_Krafft, D. Von Ebing_, 82, 84, 91

_Lamarck_, 111

Lamarchian theory of transmission, 213

Language, not transmitted to offspring, 119

_Leeuwenhock_, 103

Limitation of offspring, 179 _et seq._

Locust, egg-laying instinct of, 123

Luxury and parentage, 208

_Lycurgus_, marriage regulations of, 13 _et seq._, 22, 27

_Lyman, Dr. C. W._, on treatment of a baby, 185 _et seq._

Man, variations undergone by, 138

Man, practical superiority of, over animals, what, 210

Manufacturing life, unhealthiness of, 152

Manufacturing mills, deterioration caused by, 158

Marriage, consanguineous, ideas as to, 21, 42

Marriage customs among Spartans, 18, 19

Marriage, early, disadvantages of, 137

Marriage, importance of health in relation to, 135

Marriage, regulations as to, in Plato's Republic, 22, 25

Marriage of weak and worthless, 137

Marriage, a sacred state, 52

Marriage of chastity, disposition spiritualized by, 210

Marriages of affection and passion, difference between, analogous to that between education and instruction, 210

_Mason, Dr. R. Osgood_, on beneficial effect of hypnotism in education, 215

Maternity, avoidance of, 208

_McGee, Dr. Anita Newcomb_, 37

Memory, endowment of reproductive cells with, 70

Memory, improvement of, by hypnotic suggestion, 210

Mental dullness, curable by suggestion during hypnotic sleep, 215

Mental emotion of mother, injury to unborn child through, 200

Mesmeric sleep, effect of suggestion during, 214

Mesmerism, now known as hypnotism, 214

Method to be employed by parents for using suggestion in child training, 223

Microbes, selective action of, 143

Mind of operator, state of, necessary to successful suggestion, 224-5

Modification of certain bones through sitting, 116

Modification of the organism during descent from first ancestors, 71

Modification of sense of touch, 114

Modification of toes, 112

Modification of the whale, 115

Molecular structure of sexual cells, 110

Monogamy, return to, by the Oneida Community, 40, 41, 53

Moral nature, growth of the, 146

Mosaic regulations as to unclean animals, 63

Motherhood, highest, war an enemy to, 204

Motherhood and degeneracy of the breasts, 208

Mothers, not peculiarily the divinely appointed teachers of children, 212

Musical talent, not transmitted to offspring, 120

Mutilations, not transmissible, 119

_Meyer, Prof. Frederic W. H._, on hypnotic suggestion, 221

Natural selection, 9, 115, 138, 142

Natural selection, always operative, 147

Nature, action of, in relation to health, 130

Nerve cells, constitution of, alterable by hypnotic suggestion, 222

Nervous system, debilitation of the, 84

Night terrors cured by hypnotic suggestion, 220

Nipples, deformed, common occurrence of, 209

_Nisbet, J. F._, 90, 92

Non-nursing of children a sign of degeneracy, 208

Normal conditions only should be transferred by hypnotic suggestion, 225

Nose molding, 20

Notes, 199 _et seq._

_Noyes, John Humphrey_, 37 _et seq._

Nucleus of cell, essential to reproduction, 167

Nutrition, action of, on germ cells, 151

Nutrition (arrested) organic effect of, 77

Obedience the basis of education among the Spartans, 15

Offspring, effect of alcohol on, 171

Offspring, effect of consanguineous marriage on, 42

Offspring, influence of locality on health of, 210

Offspring, injuriously affected by sexual excess of parents, 211

Offspring, inception of, the starting point of stirpiculture, 52

Offspring, limitation of, 179 _et seq._

Oneida Community, 37 _et seq._

Ovum, 163 _et seq._

Ovum, the beginning of animal life, 101, 163

Ovum, developmental tendency of the, 110

Ovum, effect of gestation on the, 102

Ovum of different animals, apparent similarity of the, 163

_Paget, Sir James_, 148

Pain, prevention of, in surgical operations, 214

Pangenesis, experiments in, 106

Pangenesis, theory of, 75, 105, 109

Panmixia, theory of, 78

Paper mill (New England), 154

Parentage and luxury, 208

Parentage and war, 199

Parentage, responsibility in, 49, 181

Parentage, Plato's restrictions on, 11

Parentage, sacredness of, 93

Parents, how to make use of suggestion in the training of children, 222

Parents, organic growth of, injuriously affected by sexual excess, 211

Parental life, influence of, over offspring, 95

Perfectionists of the Oneida Community, 37 _et seq._

_Phillips, Wendell_, 128

Physical culture, 160

Physical training of girls among Spartans, 14

Physical weakness may be associated with mental greatness, 34

Plato, Republic of, 10 _et seq._, 25

Plutarch, 13, 16 _et seq._

Poisons, actions of, on the sexual cells, 91

Poverty, obstacle of, to production and training of the young, 203

Preference, as exhibited among animals, 131

Preference, as exhibited among men, 133

Preference, first principle of sexual selection, 131

Prenatal culture, 55 _et seq._

Prenatal culture, illustrative cases of, 60 _et seq._

Prenatal influence, 112

Prenatal influence in telegony, 85

Prenatal influences, cases of, 204 _et seq._

Principles on which sexual selection is based, 38, 131

Progress in organic life, 9

Promiscuity regulated in Oneida Community, 37

Promiscuity regulated in Plato's Republic, 11

Prostitution, camp life a school for, 202

Psychical diseases, heredity of, 82 _et seq._

Psychological laws, uncertain effect of, 68

Psychological research, laboratories for, 160

_Quatrefages, M. de_, 59

Race (human) deterioration of the, through hygienic action, 143 _et seq._

Race, improvement of the, aim of, 36

Race, improvement of the, based on spiritual sympathy, 58

Race improvement, experiment in, of the Oneida Community, 37 _et seq._

Race improvement, failure of compulsory attempts at, 27

Race improvement, Grecian methods for, 10 _et seq._

Race improvement, Grecian methods not suited for modern times, 24

Race improvement, natural factors in, 1

Race improvement, State aid to, 37, 53

Race should be thought of before ourselves, 211

Reproductive function, difference in exercise of, by animals and man, 210

Responsibility in parentage, 49, 181

_Ribot, Th._, 57, 68, 83

_Romanes, G. J._, 28, 73, 85, 87

Ruin of countries by the burdens of war, 203

Sacredness of parentage, 93

_Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy_, 68

Sampson, mother of, 172

Science of true living, hygiene as the, 160

Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society's manufacturing mill, 156 _et seq._

Selection, artificial, by man, 9

Selection, individual, by Noyes, 38

Selection, natural, _see_ "Natural selection."

Selection, sexual, _see_ "Sexual selection."

Selective action of female animals, 28 _et seq._

Selective action of woman in marriage, 43 _et seq._

Self-control, importance of, 96

Self-consciousness, excessive, cured by hypnotic suggestion, 216

Self-development, 48

Sense of touch, modification of, through use, 114

Sex-instinct, 51

Sexual cells, 162

Sexual cells, acquired powers of, 110

Sexual excess injuriously affects both parents and offspring, 211

Sexual impulse, gratification of the, consistent with the development of the highest mental qualities, 212

Sexual selection, 27 _et seq._, 131 _et seq._

Sexual selection, action of, among primeval men, 179

Sexual selection applicable primarily to male characteristics, 30

Sexual selection by women, effect of, 44 _et seq._

Sexual selection, influence of, 31, 33

Sick child, transmission of health to, by thought transference, 224

Sire, previous, influence of, on subsequent progeny, 86 _et seq._

Sleep, ordinary, differs from hypnotic sleep only in degree, 223

_Smith, Sidney_, 121

Sobriety, importance of, in relation to offspring, 91 _See_ "Alcohol."

Soldiers demand gratification of their passional natures, 202

Spartans, marriage relations among, 13 _et seq._

Special aptitudes of child determined by prenatal influences, 204

Spectre of heredity, 127 _et seq._

_Spencer, Herbert_, 4, 77, 78, 85, 87, 112, 115, 149, 169, 181

Spermatozoon, 162

Spiritual nature, appeal to, in hypnotic suggestion, 221

Spontaneous thought transference, 224

Standing armies, crushing burden of, 203

State, aid of the, to race improvement, 53

State, children regarded as belonging to the, 10 _et seq._, 22

Stirpiculture. _See_ "Race, improvement of the."

Stirpiculture, meaning of, 10

Stirpiculture, good air and water as factors in, 175

Stirpiculture, Noyes' experiment in, 37 _et seq._

Stirpiculture, starting point of, 52

Strength as necessary as tenderness to bringing up of children, 213

Struggle, sexual selection through, 132

Studious habits transmitted to children, 205

Subliminal self, orders conveyed to, by hypnotic suggestion, 222

Suggestion as an aid to child training, 214, 221

Suggestion by parents to children for educational purposes, 223

Suggestion during mesmeric sleep, bad habits cured by, 214

Suggestion during mesmeric sleep, beneficial effect of, over mental dullness, 215

Suggestion, hypnotic, influence of, in developing self-control, 219

Suggestion, hypnotic, method of, employed by Dr. R. Osgood Mason for educational purposes, 215 _et seq._

Suggestive therapeutics, 214

Superiority of offspring, where limited, 184

Surgical operations, prevention of pain in, by mesmerism, 214

Survival of the fittest, 9

Survival, what constitutes fitness for, 141

Sympathy, spiritual, as the basis of race improvement, 53

Taxation, burden of, created by war, 203

Telegony, 85 _et seq._

Temper, bad, cured by hypnotic suggestion, 217

Tenderness to be combined with strength in bringing up children, 213

Theoretical baby, 185 _et seq._

Thought transference induced artificially in hypnotic state, 224

Thought transference, nature of, 224

Thought transference, transmission of health by, to a young sick child, 224

Timidity cured by hypnotic suggestion, 216

Toes, modification of the, in man, 112

Touch, modification of the sense of, 114

Training of children aided by hypnotic suggestion, 221

Training of children, Plutarch on the, 16 _et seq._

Transformation of heredity, 83

Transitory states of parents, effect of on offspring, 59

Transmission by mother to child of aptitude for hard work, 207

Transmission by mother to child of artistic and literary tastes, 204 _et seq._, 207

Transmission by mother to child of taste for study of natural history, 206

Transmission by mother to child of taste for surgical nursing, 207

Transmission of acquired characters. _See_ "Acquired characters."

Transmission of effects of exercise, 111

_Tylor, E. B._, 64, 67

Twins, resemblance of, 90

Unborn children injured by war, 199

Unborn children, interests of, 199

Unfit, elimination of the, 139

Unicellular organisms, 109

Uterine existence, disturbances of, 58, 68

Vaccination as a preserver of weak constitutions, 143

Vitality, surplus, production of offspring depends on, 169

_Wake, C. Staniland_, 21, 42, 66

_Wallace, A. R._, 44, 136

Wallace, Alfred Russell, on prenatal influences, 204

War and parentage, 199

War, effects of, on civilization, 199

War, effects of, on unborn children, 199 _et seq._

War, enemy to the highest motherhood, 204

_Weber, Professor_, 114

_Weismann, Professor_, 72, 74 _et seq._, 78, 107, 118

Wet nurses, use of, accompanied by physical weakness, 208

Whale, modification of structure of the, 115

White race, superiority of the, due to consciousness of duty towards the race, 211

_Wolf, Caspar Frederick_, 104

Woman, condition of, among Flat head Indians, 213

Woman, first duty of, 47

Woman not superior to man, 212

Woman, selective action of, in marriage, 32, 43 _et seq._

Women incapable of love inferior as mothers, 208

Women more numerous than men, 136

Women, preference for certain characteristics in men, 133

_Xenophon_, 15

_Zeigler, Professor_, 81, 91

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

The word "diarrhoea" uses an oe ligature in the original.

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