Excerpt from Inferences From Haunted Houses and Haunted Men I venture to call attention to the grim smile worn by Charles Kingsley in the portrait which prefaces the large edition of his Life and Letters. Charles Kingsley suffered from frequent fits of exhaustion; these are often the results of excessive hypnotism after the limit (at the fifth or sixth effort) of the hypnotist's power has been reached. His brother Henry, we learn from Mr. Kegan Paul's Memoirs, Was excessively hypnotisable. His char acter was weaker perhaps ...
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Excerpt from Inferences From Haunted Houses and Haunted Men I venture to call attention to the grim smile worn by Charles Kingsley in the portrait which prefaces the large edition of his Life and Letters. Charles Kingsley suffered from frequent fits of exhaustion; these are often the results of excessive hypnotism after the limit (at the fifth or sixth effort) of the hypnotist's power has been reached. His brother Henry, we learn from Mr. Kegan Paul's Memoirs, Was excessively hypnotisable. His char acter was weaker perhaps than Charles's, but the geniality of his writings bears testimony to his remarkable ability. He was only rescued from a condition little better than a tramp's by a kind friend. Charles's life was perhaps Shortened by hypnotism. One of Kingsley's neighbours at Eversley was the late Sir W. Cope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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