[6] A Brief and Complete Refutation of the Antiscriptural Theory of the Geologists, by a Clergyman of the Church of England. London, 1853; quoted by Hugh Miller, loc. cit.
[7] L'Hypnotisme et la suggestion mentale. Germer Baillière et Cie. Paris, pp. 261-316.
[8] Revue Philosophique, Nov. 1887, quoted in Proceedings of the Soc. Psych. Research, vol. iv. p. 532.
[9] Revue Philosophique, March 1887.
[10] Mrs. Verrall states that after long practice she "lost all consciousness of the means which enabled her to guess, and saw pictures of the cards."
[11] Proceedings of the American Soc. Psych. Research, pp. 302 et seq.
[12] No doubt the great preponderance of geometrical figures is in some measure due to the use of the word "diagram," which in English would probably suggest to most persons a geometrical diagram. But possibly the word has a different shade of meaning in American. It is certain too that a considerable proportion of the persons who filled in the cards were acquainted with the object of the inquiry.
[13] Proc. American Soc. Psych. Research, pp. 35-43.
[14] It is not possible to eliminate the operation of such preferences in the percipient. But if care be taken that the series of things to be guessed is chosen arbitrarily, the only effect of even a decided preference for particular cards, numbers, etc., on the part of the percipient will be to lessen the number of coincidences due to thought-transference.
[15] See, for instance, Puységur, Memoires pour servir à l'établissement du magnétisme, pp. 22, 29 et seq., and Pététin, Electricité Animale, p. 127, etc. (quoted by Dr. Ochorowicz, De la Suggestion mentale).