patient manner, but with firm
determination.

When, however, our treatment is to ameliorate the future
destiny of the children,--when their faculty of observation is
deficient, when they have no diligence whatever, and are full
of vicious, headstrong, evil inclinations, it is our opinion
that by all means we should apply hypnotism fully to these
degenerate creatures. The suggestions in the hypnotic sleep
are of greater efficacy, more durable and profound, and
probably in many cases it will be necessary to repeat these
procedures frequently, until the imperfect intellectual
faculties are developed, and the evil inclinations suppressed.
Thus may we guide these young souls to a better and purer
future.

In conclusion, I do not hesitate to assert the importance of
hypnotism, in spite of all objections in its application to
the mental and physical faculties of healthy persons. Its
application as an educational method will be of vast
importance to sick and depraved subjects.

The train of thought in the above essay, which Dr. Berillon has
published in the September number of his _Revue de l'Hypnotisme_,
inspired the contents of a lecture presented at the Scientific
Congress at Nancy (August, 1886), out of which arose a discussion in
which Dr. Liebault observed that the facts mentioned by Dr. Berillon
are entirely true. "My long practice," said he, "has permitted me to
gather a great number of other cases, which will sustain the doctrines
of the speaker. I have never seen a child continue entirely
unreceptive of suggestion treatment. In the persons, children, and
adults, with whom I have experimented, counting by thousands, I have
never observed the least injurious consequences whatever."

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The report of the discussion given us above in _Sphinx_ shows that
these important suggestions met with only one unfriendly criticism,
and that of little force. M. Desjardins, Esq., suggested that it was
highly important that other honorable gentlemen, like Dr. Liebault,
Dr. Voisin, and Dr. Dumont, should be officially appointed to carry on
such experiments. He expressed his desire that the Congress should
recommend that hypnotic suggestion for the purpose of moral
improvement should be tried upon the worst class of pupils in the
public schools. The suggestion was seconded with energy by Dr.
Leclerc, who expressed his su