Or that a South Sea Islander would not do the same for fear of _taboo_.

Now both these forms of sorcery are really hypnotizing by action on belief, and Forethought aided by the sleep process has precisely the same result--it establishes a fixed idea in the mind, or a haunting presence.
_We can cure ourselves of intemperance_.

This was, I believe, first established or extensively experimented on by Dr.CHARLES LLOYD TUCKEY.

This can be aided by willing that the liquor, if drunk, shall be nauseating.
_We can repress to a remarkable degree the sensations of fatigue, hunger and thirst_.

Truly no man can defy the laws of nature, but it is very certain that in cases like that of Dr.TANNER, and the Hindu ascetics who were boxed up and buried for many weeks, there must have been mental determination as well as physical endurance.