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One must never live only through the spirit of the times. He must accept the centuries and world encoded within.

In the collection Writings on the Science of the Soul and the Art of Education, edited by Dr O. Pfister, Pfarrer in Zurich, the following have appeared so far:

I. The Treatment of Children Who Are Hard to Educate, and of Abnormal Children, by Dr O. Pfister, Pfarrer in Zurich. Price Fr. 4.

II. A Teacher’s Love as a Remedy: A Case of Morbid Lying and Its Treatment, by M. Frost. With a foreword by Dr Walter Frost, university professor in Bonn. Price Fr. 2.25.

III. Chance and the Goblin Tricks of the Unconscious, by Dr Herbert Silberer. Price Fr. 3.75.

IV. Supposed Noughts and Alleged Model Children, by Dr O. Pfister, Pfarrer in Zurich. Price Fr. 2.

The four little volumes in a tasteful box (suitable as a gift): price Fr. 12.75. Further little volumes in preparation.

Silberer, Chance and the Goblin Tricks of the Unconscious

Writings on the Science of the Soul and the Art of Education

edited by

Dr Oskar Pfister, Pfarrer in Zurich

together with Professor Dr Pierre Bovet, at the J.-J. Rousseau Institute in Geneva; Professor Dr Edouard Claparède in Geneva; Dr med. Emil Oberholzer in Zurich; Professor Dr E. Schneider in Riga

Number III

Ernst Bircher Verlag in Bern and Leipzig

Chance

and the

Goblin Tricks of the Unconscious

by

Herbert Silberer

Ernst Bircher Verlag in Bern and Leipzig

All rights of translation reserved. Copyright by Ernst Bircher Verlag in Bern 1921.

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