ubmit to hypnotism in order
to see whether in his trance state his "Brown" memories would come back.
The experiment was so successful that, as James remarks, "it proved
quite impossible to make him, while in hypnosis, remember any of the
facts of his normal life." The report continues:

He had heard of Ansel Bourne, but "didn't know as he had ever
met the man." When confronted with Mrs. Bourne he said that he
had "never seen the woman before," etc. On the other hand, he
told of his peregrinations during the lost fortnight, and gave
all sorts of details about the Norristown episode. The whole
thing was prosaic enough; and the Brown-personality seems to be
nothing but a rather shrunken, dejected, and amnesic extract of
Mr. Bourne himself. He gave no motive for the wandering except
that there was "trouble back there" and he "wanted rest."
During the trance he looks old, the corners of his mouth are
drawn down, his voice is slow and weak, and he sits screening
his eyes and trying vainly to remember what lay before and
after the two months of the Brown experience. "I'm all hedged
in," he says, "I can't get out at either end. I don't know what
set me down in that Pawtucket horse-car, and I don't know how I
ever left that store or what became of it." His eyes are
practically normal, and all his sensibilities (save for tardier
response) about the same in hypnosis as in waking. I had hoped
by suggestion to run the two personalities into one, and make
the memories continuous, but no artifice would avail to
accomplish this, and Mr. Bourne's skull today still covers two
distinct personal selves.

An interesting circumstance with respect to this case and others is that
the different personalities, although they inhabit the same body and
divide between them the experiences of a single individual, not only
regard themselves as distinct and independent persons but they exhibit
marked differences in character, temperament, and tastes, and frequently
profess for one another a decided antipathy. The contrasts in
temperament and character displayed by these split-off personalities are
illustrated in the case of Miss Beauchamp, to whose strange and
fantastic history Morton Prince has devoted a volume of nearly six
hundred pages.

In this case, the source of whose morbidity was investigated by means of
hypnotism, not less than th