The age at which suggestion may be of use is hardly yet known. Certainly so soon as the understanding has become developed it may be employed, though the language should be simplified for the childish understanding. Before this it is of doubtful utility; but some experiments which have been made intimate that good health may sometimes be transmitted from a healthy person to a very young sick child by thought transference.
Thought transference is the transference from one to another person of some feeling, sensation or idea. The person from whom the thought is transferred is the active agent, and the one who receives it is the passive one. Often this phenomenon takes place spontaneously, as when one is in trouble, or at the point of dying, a knowledge of it may sometimes be transferred to an intimate friend who is in sympathy. In the hypnotic state, thought transference can sometimes be induced artificially; and the point here to be considered is the transference to the child of healthy normal sensations to replace the abnormal ones which may have taken possession of consciousness and caused trouble.
The important thing always to have in mind in using psychic forces on children is to instil natural, or normal, conditions, not unnatural or abnormal ones. To this end to produce the best results, the active agent should be a normally healthy person, having good common sense, and living a normal, natural life. Those with sickly, sentimental or fanciful notions, if they try to use suggestion may transfer these states to the child, which would do harm rather than good.
INDEX.
- Acquired characters, inheritance of, [71], [73], [77] et seq., [79], [90], [109], [111], et seq.
- Acquired characters not transmitted, [213]
- Adaptation to environment necessary for health, [149]
- Aesthetic sense displayed by animals, [28]
- Aesthetic surroundings during gestation, [95]
- Air, regarded as food, [174]
- Alcohol, as a poison, [91]
- Alcohol, effect of, on offspring, [171]
- Allen, Joseph A., observations of, as to effects of war on children, [200]
- Allen, Grant, [34], [48], [51], [180]
- Amphimixis, theory of, [76]
- Ancestral ids, [75]
- Ancestral tendencies, correction of, [126]
- Animals, practical superiority of man over, what?, [210]
- Animal flesh, supposed effect of eating, [63]
- Atavism in relation to disease, [83]
- Baby, a theoretical, [185] et seq.
- Bad habits, broken up by suggestion during mesmeric sleep, [214]
- Bad temper cured by hypnotic suggestion, [217] et seq.
- Beauty, reference of sexual selection to, [28]
- Bees, instincts of, [122]
- Bérillon, Dr., on beneficial effect of hypnotism over bad habits, etc., [215]
- Birthmarks, [59], [68], [94]
- Blood, healthy, purifying influence of, [92]
- Blood, study of the, [140], [151]
- Bones, modification of certain, through sitting, [116]
- Boys, mortality among larger than with girls, [136]
- Breasts, best methods of developing, [209]
- Breasts, defective, women having, incapable of becoming mothers of a virile race, [209]
- Breasts, development of, after marriage and parentage, [209]
- Breasts, degeneracy of the, and motherhood, [208]
- Breeding in and in, Noyes' first principle for race improvement, [38]
- Camp life, evils of, [202]
- Cases of prenatal influences, [204] et seq.
- Cells, sexual, [110], [162]
- Chandler, Jennie, [97]
- Character, dependence of, on arrangement of nerve cells, [222]
- Character, improvement by suggestion, method to be employed by parents for, [223]
- Character of children affected by war, [201]
- Characteristics, origin of, through sexual selection, [134]
- Charles, Havelock, [116]
- Chickamauga Camp, prostitution at, [202]
- Children acquire special aptitudes from mothers, [205]
- Child bearing, best age for, [170]
- Children, breeding of, in Plato's Republic, [11], [12]
- Children considered as belonging to the State, [10] et seq., [22]
- Children, deaths of, in New York city, [139]
- Children, healthy, essentials for having, [168]
- Children, interests of unborn, [199]
- Children, characteristics of, in the Oneida Community, [39]
- Children in the Oneida Community, care of, [38]
- Children, mortality among, [136]
- Children, obstacle of war to production and training of, [203]
- Child training aided by suggestion, [214] et seq.
- Children, training of, [16] et seq., [52]
- Civil War and how it affected the character of children, [201]
- Co-adaptation of parts as evidence of transmission of acquired characters, [116]
- Coalescence of sperm and germ cells, [166]
- Concentrative power, want of, cured by hypnotic suggestion, [216]
- Conduct, knowledge of its object, not possessed by animals, [210]
- Congenital characters, transmission of, [177]
- Congenital deformities, [80]
- Consanguineous marriages among the Greeks, [23]
- Consanguineous marriages, regulations as to, among uncultured peoples, [21], [42]
- Consanguineous marriages, effect on offspring, [42]
- Constitution, bodily, improvement of the, [150]
- Consumption, causes of, [176]
- Consumption, tendency to, whether a bar to marriage, [176]
- Contentment, value of, [95]
- Continuity of germ-plasm, [107], [118]
- Co-operation, hygienic value of, [156] et seq.
- Cope, Prof. E. D., [59], [69]
- Cousins, marriage between, [43]
- Couvade, custom of the, [63] et seq.
- Crimes, increase of, caused by war, [201]
- Darwin, Charles, [28], [30] et seq., [73], [75], [85], [100], [105], [106], [109], [141], [179], [184]
- Death, causes of, [150]
- Deformities, congenital, [80]
- Degeneracy of the breasts and motherhood, [208]
- Degeneracy in offspring due to maternal degeneracy evidenced by inability to nurse a child, [208]
- Degeneration, evidence of, [140]
- Development of breasts after marriage and parentage, [209]
- Diseases, influence of hygiene over, [159]
- Diseases, inheritance of, [80]
- Diseases which affect offspring, [175]
- Disposition spiritualized through marriage of chastity, [210]
- Disproportion between accidental causes and effects, [68], [90]
- Diversity between offspring and parents, causes of, [58]
- Domestication of animals, [9]
- Doutrebente, Prof., [92]
- Drink, influence of, over offspring, [16]
- Duncan, J. C. Mathews, [170]
- Education, beneficial effects of hypnotism in, [215]
- Education and heredity, [111] et seq.
- Education and non-transmission of acquired characters, [124]
- Education of Spartan children, [15]
- Education, Plutarch on, [17]
- Education, study of laws of evolution, as part of, [125]
- Educational uses of hypnotism and suggestion, [220]
- Egg. See [Ovum].
- Eimer, Dr. G. H., [71], [79] et seq., [90]
- Embryo, how parental properties communicated to, [69]
- Embryology, importance of, [103]
- Energy, bodily, use and abuse of, [153]
- Environment, adaptation to, necessary for health, [149]
- Epigenesis, theory of, [104]
- Esquirol on the effects of the French Revolution over children, [200]
- Ethics of the body, hygiene as the, [160]
- Evolution, a superior race produced by, [130] et seq.
- Evolution, meaning of the term, [210]
- Evolution of the horse, [102]
- Evolution, study of laws of, as part of education, [125]
- Evolutionary theories, conflict of, with humane sentiments, [145] et seq.
- Example, influence of, over children, [18]
- Exercise, transmission of effects of, [111]
- Experiment in race improvement by Noyes, [37] et seq.
- Explanation of the action of hypnotic suggestion, [221]
- Family life, abolition of, in Plato's Republic, [10]
- Father rule should be combined with mother rule, [213]
- Fatherhood, too little importance assigned to, [212]
- Feeble constitutions prevent numerous offspring, [147]
- Fertilization essential to true germ plasm, [165]
- Fertilization, nature of, [166]
- Fison, Lorimer, [42]
- Fitness for survival, characteristics of, [140]
- Flat head Indians and heredity, [213]
- Flat head and round head tribes, comparison between, [213]
- Flat head not transmitted to offspring, [213]
- Flattening the skull, injurious effect of on health, [214]
- Flint, Dr. Austin, [88]
- Food, how it affects germ plasm, [173]
- Food (certain) injurious influence of, [94]
- Foot, compression of, by Chinese ladies, [20]
- Fosterage, [96]
- French Revolution, evil effects of over children, [200]
- Galton, Francis, [46], [50], [73], [106], [135], [170]
- Gemmules, essential to pangenesis, [105], [106]
- Generation, influences over, at time of conception, [57], [58]
- Generation, influences over, subsequent to conception, [58]
- Generative powers, debilitation of the, [84]
- Germ plasm and heredity, [107], [162]
- Germ plasm, continuity of the, [73], [74] et seq., [107], [118]
- Germ plasm, how affected by food, [173]
- Germ plasm, modification of the, [76], [80]
- Germ variations, causes of, [81]
- Gestation (period of) importance of pleasant surroundings during, [93]
- Gestation, maternal influence during, [96]
- Gestation, strong emotion during, effect of, [63], [94]
- Gestation, uterine disturbances during, [93]
- Girls, physical training of, among Spartans, [14]
- Girls, mortality among, smaller than with boys, [136]
- Great mothers, how constituted, [208]
- Group marriage of Australian natives, [21]
- Hæckel, Ernst, [109]
- Harvey, [103]
- Haycraft, John Berry, [143]
- Head flattening, [20]
- Health, action of nature in relation to, [130]
- Health, transmission of, by thought transference, to young sick child, [224]
- Healthy localities enable the healthiest offspring to be reared, [210]
- Health, adaptation to environment necessary for, [149]
- Health, ideal of, [148]
- Health, importance of, in relation to marriage, [135], [168], [171]
- Hearn, Professor, [67]
- Hedonism, New, [48]
- Hereditary tastes of children, [204] et seq.
- Heredities, antagonistic, of two parents, [58]
- Heredity among Flat-head Indians, [213]
- Heredity, definition of, [100]
- Heredity and education, [111] et seq.
- Heredity, evils arising from, may be cured, [35]
- Heredity, exceptions to law of, [58]
- Heredity and germ plasm, [107]
- Heredity, importance of knowledge of, by teachers, [125]
- Heredity, modification of law of, [99]
- Heredity, preponderating influence of, [69], [89]
- Heredity, rational view of, [109]
- Heredity, spectre of, [127] et seq.
- Heredity, theories of, [73] et seq.
- Heredity, transformation of, [83]
- Hering, Richard, [70]
- Hidery tribes of British Columbia, [214]
- High-pressure, effects of living at, [152]
- Hypnotic sleep, differs from ordinary sleep only in degree, [223]
- Hypnotic suggestion, value of, as aid to education, [216]
- Hypnotism as suggestive therapeutics, [214]
- Horse, evolution of the, [102]
- Human selection, plans for, [135] et seq.
- Human kind, regarded as a whole, should be benefited by our conduct, [211]
- Human race, further improvement of impossible, if marriage relation be regarded only from standpoint of sexual indulgence, [210]
- Humane sentiments, conflict of, with theories of evolution, [145] et seq.
- Husband and wife, tendency to resemble each other, [89]
- Huth, A. H., [42]
- Hygiene, modern, as opposed to natural selection, [142] et seq.
- Hygiene, as the ethics of the body, [160]
- Hygiene, promises of, [158] et seq.
- Hygienic laws, punishment for infraction of, [161]
- Hygienic surroundings, importance of, [139]
- Hygienic training, value of, [151]
- Ideal of Health, [148]
- Idiots, education of, [25]
- Illustrative cases of prenatal influence, [60] et seq.
- Imagination, effect of, on unborn offspring, [55] et seq.
- Improvement of race. See [race improvement].
- Incas of Peru, consanguineous marriages among the, [23]
- Income, bodily, importance of living within, [152]
- Individual, the, as the beginning and end of the race, [50]
- Individuality, development of the, [126]
- Infanticide among Spartans, [15]
- Infanticide, former general prevalence of, [19]
- Infanticide in Plato's Republic, [11]
- Infanticide not morally permissible, [24]
- Inheritance of acquired characters, question as to the, [71], [73], [77], [79], [90], [109], [111] et seq.
- Inheritance, organic, wonders of, [101]
- Injuries during life, transmission of, [79] et seq.
- Injury to health through flattening the skull, [214]
- Instinct, explanations of origin of, [121]
- Instincts of the race for children, loss of, [208]
- Instruction and education, difference between, [210]
- Intelligence affected by head flattening, [214]
- Jacob, rods of, [56]
- Jeune, Lady Mary, [47]
- Jowett, Professor B., [25] et seq., [34]
- Krafft, D. Von Ebing, [82], [84], [91]
- Lamarck, [111]
- Lamarchian theory of transmission, [213]
- Language, not transmitted to offspring, [119]
- Leeuwenhock, [103]
- Limitation of offspring, [179] et seq.
- Locust, egg-laying instinct of, [123]
- Luxury and parentage, [208]
- Lycurgus, marriage regulations of, [13] et seq., [22], [27]
- Lyman, Dr. C. W., on treatment of a baby, [185] et seq.
- Man, variations undergone by, [138]
- Man, practical superiority of, over animals, what, [210]
- Manufacturing life, unhealthiness of, [152]
- Manufacturing mills, deterioration caused by, [158]
- Marriage, consanguineous, ideas as to, [21], [42]
- Marriage customs among Spartans, [18], [19]
- Marriage, early, disadvantages of, [137]
- Marriage, importance of health in relation to, [135]
- Marriage, regulations as to, in Plato's Republic, [22], [25]
- Marriage of weak and worthless, [137]
- Marriage, a sacred state, [52]
- Marriage of chastity, disposition spiritualized by, [210]
- Marriages of affection and passion, difference between, analogous to that between education and instruction, [210]
- Mason, Dr. R. Osgood, on beneficial effect of hypnotism in education, [215]
- Maternity, avoidance of, [208]
- McGee, Dr. Anita Newcomb, [37]
- Memory, endowment of reproductive cells with, [70]
- Memory, improvement of, by hypnotic suggestion, [210]
- Mental dullness, curable by suggestion during hypnotic sleep, [215]
- Mental emotion of mother, injury to unborn child through, [200]
- Mesmeric sleep, effect of suggestion during, [214]
- Mesmerism, now known as hypnotism, [214]
- Method to be employed by parents for using suggestion in child training, [223]
- Microbes, selective action of, [143]
- Mind of operator, state of, necessary to successful suggestion, [224-5]
- Modification of certain bones through sitting, [116]
- Modification of the organism during descent from first ancestors, [71]
- Modification of sense of touch, [114]
- Modification of toes, [112]
- Modification of the whale, [115]
- Molecular structure of sexual cells, [110]
- Monogamy, return to, by the Oneida Community, [40], [41], [53]
- Moral nature, growth of the, [146]
- Mosaic regulations as to unclean animals, [63]
- Motherhood, highest, war an enemy to, [204]
- Motherhood and degeneracy of the breasts, [208]
- Mothers, not peculiarily the divinely appointed teachers of children, [212]
- Musical talent, not transmitted to offspring, [120]
- Mutilations, not transmissible, [119]
- Myer, Prof. Frederic W. H., on hypnotic suggestion, [221]
- Natural selection, [9], [115], [138], [142]
- Natural selection, always operative, [147]
- Nature, action of, in relation to health, [130]
- Nerve cells, constitution of, alterable by hypnotic suggestion, [222]
- Nervous system, debilitation of the, [84]
- Night terrors cured by hypnotic suggestion, [220]
- Nipples, deformed, common occurrence of, [209]
- Nisbet, J. F., [90], [92]
- Non-nursing of children a sign of degeneracy, [208]
- Normal conditions only should be transferred by hypnotic suggestion, [225]
- Nose molding, [20]
- Notes, [199] et seq.
- Noyes, John Humphrey, [37] et seq.
- Nucleus of cell, essential to reproduction, [167]
- Nutrition, action of, on germ cells, [151]
- Nutrition (arrested) organic effect of, [77]
- Obedience the basis of education among the Spartans, [15]
- Offspring, effect of alcohol on, [171]
- Offspring, effect of consanguineous marriage on, [42]
- Offspring, influence of locality on health of, [210]
- Offspring, injuriously affected by sexual excess of parents, [211]
- Offspring, inception of, the starting point of stirpiculture, [52]
- Offspring, limitation of, [179] et seq.
- Oneida Community, [37] et seq.
- Ovum, [163] et seq.
- Ovum, the beginning of animal life, [101], [163]
- Ovum, developmental tendency of the, [110]
- Ovum, effect of gestation on the, [102]
- Ovum of different animals, apparent similarity of the, [163]
- Paget, Sir James, [148]
- Pain, prevention of, in surgical operations, [214]
- Pangenesis, experiments in, [106]
- Pangenesis, theory of, [75], [105], [109]
- Panmixia, theory of, [78]
- Paper mill (New England), [154]
- Parentage and luxury, [208]
- Parentage and war, [199]
- Parentage, responsibility in, [49], [181]
- Parentage, Plato's restrictions on, [11]
- Parentage, sacredness of, [93]
- Parents, how to make use of suggestion in the training of children, [222]
- Parents, organic growth of, injuriously affected by sexual excess, [211]
- Parental life, influence of, over offspring, [95]
- Perfectionists of the Oneida Community, [37] et seq.
- Phillips, Wendell, [128]
- Physical culture, [160]
- Physical training of girls among Spartans, [14]
- Physical weakness may be associated with mental greatness, [34]
- Plato, Republic of, [10] et seq., [25]
- Plutarch, [13], [16] et seq.
- Poisons, actions of, on the sexual cells, [91]
- Poverty, obstacle of, to production and training of the young, [203]
- Preference, as exhibited among animals, [131]
- Preference, as exhibited among men, [133]
- Preference, first principle of sexual selection, [131]
- Prenatal culture, [55] et seq.
- Prenatal culture, illustrative cases of, [60] et seq.
- Prenatal influence, [112]
- Prenatal influence in telegony, [85]
- Prenatal influences, cases of, [204] et seq.
- Principles on which sexual selection is based, [38], [131]
- Progress in organic life, [9]
- Promiscuity regulated in Oneida Community, [37]
- Promiscuity regulated in Plato's Republic, [11]
- Prostitution, camp life a school for, [202]
- Psychical diseases, heredity of, [82] et seq.
- Psychological laws, uncertain effect of, [68]
- Psychological research, laboratories for, [160]
- Quatrefages, M. de, [59]
- Race (human) deterioration of the, through hygienic action, [143] et seq.
- Race, improvement of the, aim of, [36]
- Race, improvement of the, based on spiritual sympathy, [58]
- Race improvement, experiment in, of the Oneida Community, [37] et seq.
- Race improvement, failure of compulsory attempts at, [27]
- Race improvement, Grecian methods for, [10] et seq.
- Race improvement, Grecian methods not suited for modern times, [24]
- Race improvement, natural factors in, [10]
- Race improvement, State aid to, [37], [53]
- Race should be thought of before ourselves, [211]
- Reproductive function, difference in exercise of, by animals and man, [210]
- Responsibility in parentage, [49], [181]
- Ribot, Th., [57], [68], [83]
- Romanes, G. J., [28], [73], [85], [87]
- Ruin of countries by the burdens of war, [203]
- Sacredness of parentage, [93]
- Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, [68]
- Sampson, mother of, [172]
- Science of true living, hygiene as the, [160]
- Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society's manufacturing mill, [156] et seq.
- Selection, artificial, by man, [9]
- Selection, individual, by Noyes, [38]
- Selection, natural, see "[Natural selection]."
- Selection, sexual, see "[Sexual selection]."
- Selective action of female animals, [28] et seq.
- Selective action of woman in marriage, [43] et seq.
- Self-control, importance of, [96]
- Self-consciousness, excessive, cured by hypnotic suggestion, [216]
- Self-development, [48]
- Sense of touch, modification of, through use, [114]
- Sex-instinct, [51]
- Sexual cells, [162]
- Sexual cells, acquired powers of, [110]
- Sexual excess injuriously affects both parents and offspring, [211]
- Sexual impulse, gratification of the, consistent with the development of the highest mental qualities, [212]
- Sexual selection, [27] et seq., [131] et seq.
- Sexual selection, action of, among primeval men, [179]
- Sexual selection applicable primarily to male characteristics, [30]
- Sexual selection by women, effect of, [44] et seq.
- Sexual selection, influence of, [31], [33]
- Sick child, transmission of health to, by thought transference, [224]
- Sire, previous, influence of, on subsequent progeny, [86] et seq.
- Sleep, ordinary, differs from hypnotic sleep only in degree, [223]
- Smith, Sidney, [121]
- Sobriety, importance of, in relation to offspring, [91]
- See "[Alcohol]."
- Soldiers demand gratification of their passional natures, [202]
- Spartans, marriage relations among, [13] et seq.
- Special aptitudes of child determined by prenatal influences, [204]
- Spectre of heredity, [127] et seq.
- Spencer, Herbert, [4], [77], [78], [85], [87], [112], [115], [149], [169], [181]
- Spermatozoon, [162]
- Spiritual nature, appeal to, in hypnotic suggestion, [221]
- Spontaneous thought transference, [224]
- Standing armies, crushing burden of, [203]
- State, aid of the, to race improvement, [53]
- State, children regarded as belonging to the, [10] et seq., [22]
- Stirpiculture. See "[Race, improvement of the]."
- Stirpiculture, meaning of, [10]
- Stirpiculture, good air and water as factors in, [175]
- Stirpiculture, Noyes' experiment in, [37] et seq.
- Stirpiculture, starting point of, [52]
- Strength as necessary as tenderness to bringing up of children, [213]
- Struggle, sexual selection through, [132]
- Studious habits transmitted to children, [205]
- Subliminal self, orders conveyed to, by hypnotic suggestion, [222]
- Suggestion as an aid to child training, [214], [221]
- Suggestion by parents to children for educational purposes, [223]
- Suggestion during mesmeric sleep, bad habits cured by, [214]
- Suggestion during mesmeric sleep, beneficial effect of, over mental dullness, [215]
- Suggestion, hypnotic, influence of, in developing self-control, [219]
- Suggestion, hypnotic, method of, employed by Dr. R. Osgood Mason for educational purposes, [215] et seq.
- Suggestive therapeutics, [214]
- Superiority of offspring, where limited, [184]
- Surgical operations, prevention of pain in, by mesmerism, [214]
- Survival of the fittest, [9]
- Survival, what constitutes fitness for, [141]
- Sympathy, spiritual, as the basis of race improvement, [53]
- Taxation, burden of, created by war, [203]
- Telegony, [85] et seq.
- Temper, bad, cured by hypnotic suggestion, [217]
- Tenderness to be combined with strength in bringing up children, [213]
- Theoretical baby, [185] et seq.
- Thought transference induced artificially in hypnotic state, [224]
- Thought transference, nature of, [224]
- Thought transference, transmission of health by, to a young sick child, [224]
- Timidity cured by hypnotic suggestion, [216]
- Toes, modification of the, in man, [112]
- Touch, modification of the sense of, [114]
- Training of children aided by hypnotic suggestion, [221]
- Training of children, Plutarch on the, [16] et seq.
- Transformation of heredity, [83]
- Transitory states of parents, effect of on offspring, [59]
- Transmission by mother to child of aptitude for hard work, [207]
- Transmission by mother to child of artistic and literary tastes, [204] et seq., [207]
- Transmission by mother to child of taste for study of natural history, [206]
- Transmission by mother to child of taste for surgical nursing, [207]
- Transmission of acquired characters. See "[Acquired characters]."
- Transmission of effects of exercise, [111]
- Tylor, E. B., [64], [67]
- Twins, resemblance of, [90]
- Unborn children injured by war, [199]
- Unborn children, interests of, [199]
- Unfit, elimination of the, [139]
- Unicellular organisms, [109]
- Uterine existence, disturbances of, [58], [68]
- Vaccination as a preserver of weak constitutions, [143]
- Vitality, surplus, production of offspring depends on, [169]
- Wake, C. Staniland, [21], [42], [66]
- Wallace, A. R., [44], [136]
- Wallace, Alfred Russell, on prenatal influences, [204]
- War and parentage, [199]
- War, effects of, on civilization, [199]
- War, effects of, on unborn children, [199] et seq.
- War, enemy to the highest motherhood, [204]
- Weber, Professor, [114]
- Weismann, Professor, [72], [74] et seq., [78], [107], [118]
- Wet nurses, use of, accompanied by physical weakness, [208]
- Whale, modification of structure of the, [115]
- White race, superiority of the, due to consciousness of duty towards the race, [211]
- Wolf, Caspar Frederick, [104]
- Woman, condition of, among Flat head Indians, [213]
- Woman, first duty of, [47]
- Woman not superior to man, [212]
- Woman, selective action of, in marriage, [32], [43] et seq.
- Women incapable of love inferior as mothers, [208]
- Women more numerous than men, [136]
- Women, preference for certain characteristics in men, [133]
- Xenophon, [15]
- Zeigler, Professor, [81], [91]
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