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tint of each influences that of its neighbours. It must be understood that
my remarks, though based on Dr. Key’s diagrams and statements as on a
text, do not depend, by any means, wholly upon them, but on numerous
other letters from various quarters to the same effect. At the same time I
should say that Dr. Key’s elaborate drawings and ample explanations, to
which I am totally unable to do justice in a moderate space, are the most
full and striking of any I have received. His illustrations are on a large
scale, and are ingeniously arranged so as to express his meaning.
Persons who have colour associations are unsparingly critical. To
ordinary individuals one of these accounts seems just as wild and lunatic
as another, but when the account of one seer is submitted to another seer,
who is sure to see the colours in a different way, the latter is scandalised
and almost angry at the heresy of the former. I submitted this very account
of Dr. Key to a lady, the wife of an ex governor of one of the most
important British possessions, who has vivid colour associations of her
own, and who, I had some reason to think, might have personal
acquaintance with the locality where Dr. Key lives. She could not
comprehend his account at all, his colours were so entirely different to
those that she herself saw.
I have now completed as much as I propose to say about the quaint
phenomena of Visualised Forms of numbers and of dates, and of coloured
associations with letters. I shall not extend my remarks to such subjects as
a musician hearing mental music, of which I have many cases, nor to
fancies concerning the other senses, as none of these are so noteworthy. I
am conscious that the reader may desire even more assurance of the
trustworthiness of the accounts I have given than the space now at my
disposal admits, or than I could otherwise afford without wearisome
iteration of the same tale, by multiplying extracts from my large store of
material. I feel, too, that it may seem ungracious to many obliging
correspondents not to have made more evident use of what they have sent
than my few and brief notices permit. Still their end and mine will have
been gained, if these remarks and illustrations succeed in leaving a just
impression of the vast
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