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338 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
Some squanderings of kingdoms to make peace after this foolhardy
attempt to surprise the Alliance and capture it sleeping. Not
so easy a conquest as when communications were silenced by a
wo r . . . [part of ' r ' made and the whole erased.] command
[ N. R.] Conunand. [Distress with groan : ' Oh '.]
I do not thirst for conquest. The years have brought me understanding
and I fight only for the safety of a country whose name
and mine are indissolubly bound [scrawlly, but so read and not
rewritten.] [ 11]
You want my vision. Paris restored to peace. Germany disrupted
forever. Russia overwhelmed by demands and internal strife
that make mobilization of forces as now exist impossible in the
future. England proud triumphant and gathering [N. R.] force ...
gathering . . . by victories only to face new · and unlooked for disturbances.
America with unintangled [read ' an entangled '] un ...
[read ' untangled '] unen . . . . [read.] fates proceeds [proceed] to
dictate some terms of arbitration to the Alliance for liberties taken
at the time. Japan a power unlooked for in warfare but not true
to the triumvirate making effort to attach itself to belligerent and
peaceful nations at the same time. Its dual policy revealed by a
strategic move made within a month but unable to maintain the
attitude assumed. Soon removes its sinews of war to parts of less
danger. I will report again. [Pencil fell, medium began to choke
and lose breath, rose in chair and struggled as if dying. I held hand
edge of inside things to say this confidently. It might be guessed from the
blockade, but few would have guessed it from what was known at the time.
11. The tone of this passage involves a large insight into the conditions
and consequences of the action of Germany. The confidence of it is not
natural to Mrs. Chenoweth, whatever the knowledge she may possess. and in
my opinion she has no digested knowledge of the economic and political
conditions or history of the facts to make this judgment unless it is a
passive reproduction or representation of casual information from the
gossip or statements of the more informed.
The statement: " I do not thirst for conquest. The years have brought
me understanding" is a remarkably beautiful statement to come from any
personality with the history and character 9f Napoleon and is contrary to
the actual belief about him by Mrs. Chenoweth. When I told her of it she
expressed surprise and thought his character and ideas would be the same.
and. thought it a beautiful thing that he had changed his ideas. Hence it
is not a natural expression of the subconscious.
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