Is it admissible that the first comer should hypnotize one or more persons, and then do with them as he likes?
And especially that the hypnotizer should be the first immoral individual who happens to come along?
It is a frightful power in the hands of any one, no matter whom.

For instance, should they be allowed to play this 'Kreutzer Sonata,' the first presto,--and there are many like it,--in parlors, among ladies wearing low necked dresses, or in concerts, then finish the piece, receive the applause, and then begin another piece?
These things should be played under certain circumstances, only in cases where it is necessary to incite certain actions corresponding to the music.

But to incite an energy of feeling which corresponds to neither the time nor the place, and is expended in nothing, cannot fail to act dangerously.
On me in particular this piece acted in a frightful manner.

One would have said that new sentiments, new virtualities, of which I was formerly ignorant, had developed in me.

'Ah, yes, that's it! Not at all as I lived and thought before! This is the right way to live!' "Thus I spoke to my soul as I listened to that music.