The Doctrine of the Trinity of Man.--The Greek Philosophy.--The Early Christian Fathers.--Hermetic Philosophy.--Swedenborg.--Duality in Modern Philosophy.--"Objective" and "Subjective" Minds.--Their Distinctive Differences and Modes of Operation.--The Subjective Mind a Distinct Entity.--Illustrations from Hypnotism.--Suggestion. --Auto-Suggestion.--Universality of the Law of Suggestion 27 CHAPTER III. REASONING POWERS OF THE TWO MINDS DIFFERENTIATED. The Subjective Mind incapable of Inductive Reasoning.--Its Processes always Deductive, or Syllogistic.--Its Premises the Result of Suggestion.--Illustrations by Hypnotism.--Hypnotic Interview with Socrates.--Reasons from an Assumed Major Premise.--Interview with a Philosophic Pig.--The Pig affirms the Doctrine of Reincarnation.--Dogmatism of Subjective Intelligence.--Incapable of Controversial Argument.--Persistency in following a Suggested Line of Thought 33 CHAPTER IV. PERFECT MEMORY OF THE SUBJECTIVE MIND. Confirmed by Hypnotic Phenomena.--Opinions of Psychologists.--Sir William Hamilton's Views.--Observations of Dr. Rush.--Talent for Poetry and Music developed by Abnormal Conditions.--Talent for Drawing evolved by Madness.--Resuscitation of Knowledge in the Insane.--Extraordinary Feats of Memory during Illness.--A Forgotten Language recovered.--Whole Pages of Greek and Hebrew remembered by an Illiterate Servant Girl.--Speaking in Unknown Tongues explained.--The Result of the Operations of Natural Law 40 CHAPTER V. SUBJECTIVE MEMORY (_continued_). Practical Illustrations.--Reasons for Limitations of Subjective Power.--Its Practical Significance.--Its Application to the Solution of Problems of Insanity.--The Mental Phenomena of "Genius."--Napoleon Bonaparte.--Shakspeare.--Poets.--Artists.--Macaulay's Estimate of Poets and Poetry.--Dangers of Subjective Control.--Lord Byron.--Socrates' Estimate of Poets.--His Recognition of the Subjective Element in Poetic Composition.--Occasional Inconveniences.--Unconscious Plagiarism.--Observations of Holmes.--Improvisation.--Solution of the Shakspeare-Bacon Problem.--The Subjective in Art.--Madness in Art.--Great Orators.--Webster.--Clay.--Patrick Henry.--Incidents.--Practical Conclusions 48 CHAPTER VI. PERCEPTION OF THE FIXED LAWS OF NATURE.