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...decorous 1840's when the sparkling Mr. Atkinson was compelling the hot-house plants of London's selectest society to swoon on sofas every evening and releasing for literature the troubled unconscious of Harriet Martinean, the myth was current that Hypnosis called for a handsome, muscular Personality with electric eyes; a veritable storage battery of animal magnetism. After the Radio experiments of the other night in Boston, Personality dwindles to condensite. If the talking machine companies should see the point, the gentle art of falling asleep might drive out morphine and gin as a method for dodging the World crisis...
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