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Inquiries into Human Faculty
senting what I see. There was a little difficulty in the performance,
because it is only by catching oneself at unawares, so to speak, that one is
quite sure that what one sees is not affected by temporary imagination.
But it does not seem much like, chiefly because the mental picture never
seems on the flat but in a thick, dark gray atmosphere deepening in certain
parts, especially where 1 emerges, and about 20. How I get from 100 to
120 I hardly know, though if I could require these figures a few times
without thinking of them on purpose, I should soon notice. About 200 I
lose all framework. I do not see the actual figures very distinctly, but what
there is of them is distinguished from the dark by a thin whitish tracing. It
is the place they take and the shape they make collectively which is
invariable. Nothing more definitely takes its place than a person’s age.
The person is usually there so long as his age is in mind.”
T.M. “The representation I carry in my mind of the numerical series is quite
distinct to me, so much so that I cannot think of any number but I at once see it
(as it were) in its peculiar place in the diagram. My remembrance of dates is also
nearly entirely dependent on a clear mental vision of their loci in the diagram.
This, as nearly as I can draw it, is the following
