There are relative conditions of superiority and inferiority in mesmerists and sensitives only. I have mesmerized men who were my superiors in every way--health, strength of body and mind--the only conditions of difference consisting of this important fact, that for the time being they approached the subject of Mesmerism with open minds--a desire to get at truth--and sat down with a non-resistant attitude of mind, perfectly willing to be mesmerized, and to record their own symptoms in connection therewith, if possible. In the majority of cases the seventh or eighth sitting suffices to overcome all difficulties, and induce sleep in the most healthy and vigorous. There have, however, been exceptions to this. Don’t waste time with a man who makes a bet through pride, vanity, or ignorance, that he can’t be mesmerized. Don’t waste health and energy trying to influence him just then. His manner and words indicate that he will arouse all his faculties to resist you, presenting thereby positive and antagonistic mental conditions for you to overcome. Men have done this. If you really want to mesmerize them the best plan is to throw them off their guard as to your intentions. But as soon as their opposition is cooled down a little, proceed _gently_ and _steadily_ to _impress them_ with what Mesmerism has done and can do. Thus gradually and surely psychologize them, leading up to and preparing them for the final _coup_. In the end it may not be so difficult to mesmerize them as they at first imagined. The persistent man of business, the advocate of certain views--temperance, anti-slavery, or what not--the man with “a mission,” the doctor of medicine, preacher, and lover, all adopt this method more or less unconsciously, because naturally; the mesmerist, detecting the law, applies it consciously--that is all.