[Footnote 37: As all numbers above 90 were excluded, and as 0 cannot come first, the first digit should, by pure chance, have been correctly named more often than the second; but the disproportion, it will be seen, is far greater than could be thus accounted for.] [Footnote 38: _Proc. S.P.R._, vol. viii. pp. 554-577.] [Footnote 39: This was an idea extremely familiar to P., who had been a chorister and was still connected with the choir of his church.] [Footnote 40: _Proceedings Soc. Psych. Research_, vol. viii. pp. 565, 566.] [Footnote 41: _Annales des Sciences Psychiques_, vol. ii. pp. 334, 335.] [Footnote 42: See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. pp. 677, 678.] CHAPTER IV. EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION OF MOVEMENTS AND OTHER EFFECTS. In the two preceding chapters we have discussed experiments where the impression received by the percipient may be interpreted as having been a more or less accurate reproduction of the sensation experienced by the agent, or at most a translation of it into some other simple sensation. There have now to be considered various cases in which the transmission of thought is productive of other results in the percipient than the simple duplication or translation of a sensation. The most usual case is where the telepathic impulse leads to some action on the part of the percipient. It was frequently stated by the older mesmerists[43] that the operator, by a silent act of will, could induce a good subject to do or refrain from doing some prescribed or customary action. Isolated observations on such a point are little likely to compel belief; the vanity or the credulity of the recorder may be supposed to have led to his overlooking the negative instances, and attributing to his own peculiar gifts a result in reality due to chance. But, following on the clue thus obtained, the Committee on Mesmerism appointed by the S.P.R. in 1882, to some of whose work reference has already been made (Chapter III., p. 60), succeeded in obtaining results less open to question. _Inhibition of Action by Silent Willing._