king
in constant patterns; of track of eye when searching for
lost objects; occasional origin from figures on clock; from
various other sources; the non-decimal nomenclature of
numerals; perplexity caused by it. Description of figures
in Plate I.; Plate II.; Plate III.; Plate IV. Colours
assigned to numerals (see 105); personal characters; sex;
frequency with which the various numerals are used in the
Talmud.

COLOUR ASSOCIATIONS

(Description of Plate IV. continued) Associations with
numerals; with words and letters; illustrations by Dr. J.
Key; the scheme of one seer unintelligible to other seers;
mental music, etc.

VISIONARIES

Sane persons often see visions; the simpler kinds of
visions; unconsciousness of seers, at first, of their
peculiarity; subsequent dislike to speak about it; imagery
connected with words; that of Mrs. Haweis; automatic changes
in dark field of eye; my own experiences; those of Rev. G. Henslow;
visions frequently unlike vivid visualisations; phantasmagoria;
hallucinations; simile of a seal in a pond; dreams and partial
sensitiveness of brain; hallucinations and illusions, their causes;
"faces in the fire," etc.; sub-conscious picture-drawing; visions
based on patched recollections; on blended recollections; hereditary
seership; visions caused by fasting, etc.; by spiritual discipline
(see also 47); star of Napoleon I.; hallucinations of
great men; seers commoner at some periods than at others;
reasons why.

NURTURE AND NATURE

Their effects are difficult to separate; the same character
has many phases; Renaissance; changes owing merely to
love of change; feminine fashions; periodical sequences of
changed character in birds; the interaction of nurture and
nature.

ASSOCIATIONS

Derived from experience; especially from childish recollections
(see 141); abstract ideas; cumulative ideas, like composite
portraits (see also Appendix, "Generic Images," p. 229);
their resemblance even in details.

PSYCHOMETRIC EXPERIMENTS

Difficulty of watching the mind in operation; how it may
be overcome; irksomeness of the process; tentative experiments;
method used subsequently; the number of recurrent
associations; memory; ages at which associations are
formed; similarity of the associations in persons of the same
country and class of society; different descriptions of
associations,
classified; their