Part 13

It should be noted that this is an inverted form of cosmic suggestion which exerts a considerable influence over certain dispositions; very often this bias is confined to one or two subjects only in which an individual is particularly interested, and in connexion with which a permanently repellent autosuggestion is developed. Some writers have spoken of this as contra-suggestion. On these subjects any suggestion conveyed by word or sign provokes an immediate and unthinking contradiction or an unreasoning hostile attitude or tendency.

Preface a "Bajazet."

The aesthetic emotions are dealt with at length by Dr. Bain in "The Emotions and the Will," chap. xiv.

I.e. processes of the conscious or objective mind.

There are a few notable exceptions where this instinct appears to be deficient among primitive and nomadic tribes. McDougall instances the Punaris of Borneo.

"Social Psychology," p. 100.

"The Free Press," 1918.

Mr. Hughes, March 11, 1918.

Gustave Le Bon.

I.e. powers of the subjective mind.

Thus Mr. Jevons says: "The consciousness of the child reproduces the consciousness of the community to which he belongs."--"The Idea of God in Early Religions."

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