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Professor Huskins
By Lettie M. Cummings
BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGER
TORONTO: THE COPP-CLARK CO., LIMITED.
Copyright 1916 by Richard G. Badger
All Rights Reserved
THE GORHAM PRESS, BOSTON. U. S. A.
TO MY MOTHER
Whose love and profound interest in my
work was an inspiration and
encouragement
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
PROFESSOR HUSKINS
CHAPTER ONE
"Here is a complication I know not how to solve and unravel. Threedifferent persons in equally quiescent condition, and equally good'subjects,' are placed in a comatose state by the same operator, wholeaves them unbiased by his personal opinions, thinking to obtain in themesmerized condition, (with their material bodies completely subjugatedand inactive,) truth, upon a subject that man in his normal state cannotpositively ascertain nor agree upon. Each of these 'subjects' gives adifferent opinion, and as all can be argued with more or less fluency,there are, seemingly, reasonable points in all. How can thediscrepancies be reconciled? That is the question.
"I have thought the subject over seriously ever since the experiment,and the only way I can see is to mesmerize other persons, until two arefound who do agree. It is a scientific problem of which we need an explanation.
"There must be a law of uniformity governing the Universe; otherwisesuch perfect order would not exist. But who can determine what that law is?
"I cannot understand the cause of so much variance in the answers. If I