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various other sources; the non-decimal nomenclature of numerals; perplexity
Colours assigned to numerals (see 105); personal characters; sex; frequency
with which the various numerals are used in the Talmud.
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(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.
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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. Hen slow; 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
