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The Sleeper Awakes

CHAPTER XVII
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And what else have you ?" There came also practical psychologists with some very interesting developments in the art of hypnotism.

The names of Milne Bramwell, Fechner, Liebault, William James, Myers and Gurney, he found, bore a value now that would have astonished their contemporaries.

Several practical applications of psychology were now in general use; it had largely superseded drugs, antiseptics and anesthetics in medicine; was employed by almost all who had any need of mental concentration.

A real enlargement of human faculty seemed to have been effected in this direction.

The feats of "calculating boys," the wonders, as Graham had been wont to regard them, of mesmerisers, were now within the range of anyone who could afford the services of a skilled hypnotist.


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