The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc.

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SUBJECTIVE MEMORY (_continued_).

Practical Illustrations.--Reasons for Limitations of Subjective Power.--Its Practical Significance.--Its Application to the Solution of Problems of Insanity.--The Mental Phenomena of "Genius."--Napoleon Bonaparte.--Shakspeare.--Poets.--Artists.--Macaulay's Estimate of Poets and Poetry.--Dangers of Subjective Control.--Lord Byron.--Socrates' Estimate of Poets.--His Recognition of the Subjective Element in Poetic Composition.--Occasional Inconveniences.--Unconscious Plagiarism.--Observations of Holmes.--Improvisation.--Solution of the Shakspeare-Bacon Problem.--The Subjective in Art.--Madness in Art.--Great Orators.--Webster.--Clay.--Patrick Henry.--Incidents.--Practical Conclusions 48