Thus Liébeault found only _sixty_ subjects intractable out of the _seven hundred_ he experimented upon; and Bernheim, out of 1,014 subjects, failed with only _twenty-six_. The field for the natural-born _jadoo-wala_ (sorcery-mongers), is vast indeed! Evil has acquired a play-ground on which it may now exercise its sway upon many a generation of unconscious victims. For crimes undreamt of in the waking state, and felonies of the blackest dye, are now invited and encouraged by the new “accursed science.” The real perpetrators of these deeds of darkness may now remain for ever hidden from the vengeance of human justice. The hand which executes the criminal suggestion is only that of an irresponsible automaton, whose memory preserves no trace of it, and who, moreover, is a witness who can easily be disposed of by compulsory suicide—again under “suggestion.” What better means than these could be offered to the fiends of lust and revenge, to those dark Powers—called human passions—ever on the look out to break the universal commandment: “Thou shalt not steal, nor murder, nor lust after thy neighbour’s wife?” Liébeault _suggested_ to a young girl that she should poison herself with prussic acid, and she swallowed the supposed drug without one moment’s hesitation; Dr. Liégois _suggested_ to a young woman that she owed him 5,000 francs, and the subject forthwith signed a cheque for the amount Bernheim _suggested_ to another hysterical girl a long and complicated vision with regard to a criminal case. Two days after, although the hypnotiser had not exercised any new pressure upon her in the interim, she repeated distinctly the whole suggested story to a lawyer sent to her for the purpose. Had her evidence been seriously accepted, it would have brought the accused to the guillotine. These cases present two dark and terrible aspects. From the moral stand point, such processes and _suggestions_ leave an indelible stain upon the purity of the subject’s nature. Even the innocent mind of a ten year old child can thus be innoculated with vice, the poison-germ of which will develop in his subsequent life.