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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Francis Galton
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Institute; specimens of a few descriptions and
illustrative woodcuts; great variety in the Forms; their
early origin; directions in which they run; bold conceptions
of children concerning height and depth; historical
dates, months, etc.; alphabet; derivation of the Forms
from the spoken names of numerals; fixity of the Form
compared to that of the handwriting; of animals working
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;
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