American spirit hangs upon such development of the spiritual consciousness. In our most pessimistic forecasts there is always this undercrest of hope, so animate in William Winter's lines: Auspicious Future! May it find, In our great Empire of the West,- By Plenty crowned, by Freedom blest,- Is intellectual loveliness! SUGGESTION AS A CHARACTER-FORMER: THE EVOCA TION OF MORAL PROPENSITY What the more characteristically divine facts are, apart from the actual inflow of energy in the faith state and the prayer state, I know not. But the over-belief on which I am ready to make my personal venture is that they exist, and every man owns indefeasibly an inlet to the divine. Professor JAMES. God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions (Ecc. vii). They are all gone aside (Ps. xiv)—yet all are capable of regeneration and adjustment to the climate of Heaven. The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off. EMERSON. Moral insanity, which sometimes comes out at puberty, is characterized by incapacity for education, distaste for family life, marked peculiarities of character, extreme cleverness in certain directions, bad sexuality and criminality. President G. STANLEY HALL. TH came to be interested in suggestive therapy was that he might find a rational means of dealing with moral diseases and juvenile delinquency. Twenty years ago his life was saved by mental treatment administered in an enforced sleep by a brother physician; and learning in this way, from personal experience, the power of the human mind to overcome physical and mental illness, he foresaw its applicability to moral degeneracy, which for years he had studied and sought to combat. A determination to make thorough trial of its virtues led to experiments that were recorded in an early paper prepared for the New Hampshire Medical Society; and the successful handling of a long list of moral diseases, including jealousy, perversity, ungovernable temper, senseless extravagance, kleptomania and habitual falsehood, pyromania (mania for setting fires), mania for swindling and gam |