Show shrewd fakir defrauded many int 1 never complained prof of harvard whose Is psychology relies to some extent on the point of a good story in enforcing his positions in abstract demonstration he has one on the association of ideas that will illustrate A medieval magician more abiu bately called fakir nowadays an bounced that he had invented and had for sale a magic pot if certain rather common stones were mixed and placed in the pot with a certain portion of water and the whole shaken diligent ly tor an hour the stones would turn to gold provided that during the hour the operator should not think of a hip popo tamus the fakir sold a great many for tab cloua sums and not one of the purchasers ever demanded a return of the money the fakir knew his business bays the boston herald he was in advance of his age in psychology in his skill in permanently fixing in his customer s minds the association of the old pot and a hippopotamus |