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nomenon so opposed to natural laws, that I seek in vain for its satisfactory explanation.

I have already remarked that the exclamation of a startled latah is always characterised by indecency, and connecting these two extremes of my subject, I cannot but think that the whole of this mental anomaly might possibly be traced to some structural peculiarity which has hitherto escaped the specialist's attention.^[1]

H. A. O'BRIEN.

↑ I have been collecting for some time past cases as regards latah subjects who have also committed amok, but facts I have collected are as yet too spurse for me to venture upon any matured generalization. That the mental fact underlying the two "diseases" are identical, I have no sort of doubt, and I hope to be able soon to show that this is so by those valued figures which cannot lie. A present, however, whether from defective information, or from wilful misinformation, here is a flaw in my premises which destroys, as for as Arithmetic is concerned, my whole induction.

[1] I have been collecting for some time past cases as regards latah subjects who have also committed amok, but facts I have collected are as yet too spurse for me to venture upon any matured generalization. That the mental fact underlying the two "diseases" are identical, I have no sort of doubt, and I hope to be able soon to show that this is so by those valued figures which cannot lie. A present, however, whether from defective information, or from wilful misinformation, here is a flaw in my premises which destroys, as for as Arithmetic is concerned, my whole induction.

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