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THE LAW OF SUGGESTION

Photo by Rentschler, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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IS MAN A FREE AGENT?

THE LAW OF SUGGESTION

INCLUDING

HYPNOSIS WHAT AND WHY IT IS, AND HOW TO INDUCE IT

THE LAW OF NATURE MIND, HEREDITY, ETC.

BY SANTANELLI

THOSE WHO SEE SHOULD LEAD THE BLIND

LANSING, MICH. THE SANTANELLI PUBLISHING CO. 1902 BURNS & OATES, 28 ORCHARD ST., LONDON, W.

COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY JAMES H. LORYEA

ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Printed and Bound by Robert Smith Printing Co. Lansing, Mich., U.S.A.

“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” Oh! how true; touch a man’s pocket and you instantly touch his heart, which seems to be at the other end of the nerve. Like the elevator boy, I have had many “ups and downs,” but unlike him, I feel that my “downs” have been twice or thrice to every “up.”

Acquaintances I have by the score, friends but two, therefore am at least a hundred per cent better off than most of mankind. These two friends have had their faith tried many and many a time, yet were always ready to respond.

Many the hour, both day and night, have I thought of them; many the resolution have I formed, but my good intentions availed them not. ’Tis said that Hades is paved with good intentions, but they are of no commercial value and repay no material loans. Some day “when my ship comes in”—if it be laden with other than air castles,—I may have something other than good intentions to repay my true friends, Frank H. Doolittle, of Lansing, Mich., and Col. Le Gage Pratt, of East Orange, N. J. To them, with all my heart, is this book dedicated.

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(J. H. Loryea.)

Lansing, Michigan, January, 1902.

Contents

FOREWORD 7 HYPNOSIS 11 MIND 104 HEREDITY 132 SUGGESTION 156 WORDS 216

FOREWORD

A word of itself puts no thought into action, though a series of word sense-picturing may. Thoughts are made up of associated ideas through the different senses; two senses must be affected to put a thought in action. I must arouse a sight memory (picture), a feeling memory (picture), as well as a sound through words, to have my reader gain a thorough understanding.

Though accredited with an extensive vocabulary and having a large dictionary at hand, I will have trouble in making you comprehend.

There are no synonyms, as no two things are the same. Therefore, all words used here must have but one meaning. The following words and phrases will be used to mean only the here-affixed definitions.