Aeronautical pupils, who gave way to giddiness, could be relieved from their imaginary terrors.

In every street were hypnotists ready to print permanent memories upon the mind.

If anyone desired to remember a name, a series of numbers, a song or a speech, it could be done by this method, and conversely memories could be effaced, habits removed, and desires eradicated--a sort of psychic surgery was, in fact, in general use.

Indignities, humbling experiences, were thus forgotten, widows would obliterate their previous husbands, angry lovers release themselves from their slavery.

To graft desires, however, was still impossible, and the facts of thought transference were yet unsystematised.