Thought transference is the transference from one to another person of some feeling, sensation or idea. The person from whom the thought is transferred is the _active_ agent, and the one who receives it is the _passive_ one. Often this phenomenon takes place spontaneously, as when one is in trouble, or at the point of dying, a knowledge of it may sometimes be transferred to an intimate friend who is in sympathy. In the hypnotic state, thought transference can sometimes be induced artificially; and the point here to be considered is the transference to the child of healthy normal sensations to replace the abnormal ones which may have taken possession of consciousness and caused trouble. The important thing always to have in mind in using psychic forces on children is to instil natural, or normal, conditions, not unnatural or abnormal ones. To this end to produce the best results, the active agent should be a normally healthy person, having good common sense, and living a normal, natural life. Those with sickly, sentimental or fanciful notions, if they try to use suggestion may transfer these states to the child, which would do harm rather than good. INDEX. Acquired characters, inheritance of, 71, 73, 77 _et seq._, 79, 90, 109, 111, _et seq._ Acquired characters not transmitted, 213 Adaptation to environment necessary for health, 149 Aesthetic sense displayed by animals, 28 Aesthetic surroundings during gestation, 95 Air, regarded as food, 174 Alcohol, as a poison, 91 Alcohol, effect of, on offspring, 171 Allen, Joseph A., observations of, as to effects of war on children, 200 _Allen, Grant_, 34, 48, 51, 180 Amphimixis, theory of, 76 Ancestral _ids_, 75 Ancestral tendencies, correction of, 126 Animals, practical superiority of man over, what?, 210 Animal flesh, supposed effect of eating, 63 Atavism in relation to disease, 83 Baby, a theoretical, 185 _et seq._ Bad habits, broken up by suggestion during mesmeric sleep, 214 Bad temper cured by hypnotic suggestion, 217 _et seq._ Beauty, reference of sexual selection to, 28 Bees, instincts of, 122 Berillon, Dr., on beneficial effect of hypnotism over bad habits, etc., 215 Birthmarks, 59, 68, 94 Blood, healthy, purifying influence of, 92 Blood, study of the, 140, 151 Bones, modification of certain, through sitting, 116 Boys, mortality among larger than with girls, 136 Breasts, best methods of developing, 209 Breasts, defective, women having, incapable of becoming mothers of a virile race, 209 Breasts, development of, after marriage and parentage, 209 Breasts, degeneracy of the, and motherhood, 208 Breeding in and in, Noyes' first principle for race improvement, 38 Camp life, evils of, 202 Cases of prenatal influences, 204 _et seq._ Cells, sexual, 110, 162 _Chandler, Jennie_, 97 Character, dependence of, on arrangement of nerve cells, 222