Or we may say that they assume "Because _I_ think, then God must _think_ like me!" Now to come to Hypnotic thought, or suggested mental action.

I would infer that, according to what I have said, there may be two kinds of mentality, or working of the mind--the one under certain conditions as effective or resultant as the other; the first being--as it was in the order of time--Unconscious or Instinctive; the other, conscious and self-observant.
For the man who built a Romanesque Cathedral worked by the suggestiveness of minds which went before him, or Tradition.

He was truly, as it were, in a kind of slumber; indeed, all life was more or less of a waking dream in those dim, strange days.

"Millions marched forth to death scarce knowing why," all because they were _told_ to do so--they felt that they must do it, and they did it.

"Like turkeys led by a red rag," says CARLYLE.