Excerpt from Hypnotism in Mental and Moral Culture When the thought occurred to the author during the winter of 1898-99 to test the availability of hypnotic suggestion as a means of removmg criminal impulses and substituting conscience sensitiveness for moral anaesthesia among young criminals and castaways, he was convinced that the results of his invesigations would possess deep interest for the men and women of his profession, and he purposed publishing them, together with his conclusions, in the form of a medical monograph. But he was wholly unprepared for the sensation that has beenexcited throughout this country and in Eu rope by the premature birth of his report in the columns of the daily press. The demand for full and authentic information regarding hypnotic suggestion, which has suddenly be come appreciated as a great moralizing power at its true worth and with an intelligent reference to the wide range of its applica tions, explains the appearance of the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.