Free Market
Author:
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
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The Free Market 26, no. 4 (April 2005) Our image of Svengali derives from a 1894 novel by George Du Maurier (Trilby) that tells of a hypnotist who exercised psychological power over a woman. Insofar as Svengali is in control, she can sing beautifully. But when he is not around, she is reduced to barely functioning at all. Svengali himself