visual imagery.  The last of the three groups contains what I will venture, for the want of a better name, to call “histrionic” representations.  It includes those cases where I either act a part in imagination, or see in imagination a part acted, or, most commonly by far, where I am both spectator and all the actors at once, in an imaginary mental theatre.  Thus I feel a nascent sense of some muscular action while I simultaneously witness a puppet of my brain—­a part of myself—­perform that action, and I assume a mental attitude appropriate to the occasion.  This, in my case, is a very frequent way of generalising, indeed I rarely feel that I have secure hold of a general idea until I have translated it somehow into this form.  Thus the word “abasement” presented itself to me, in one of my experiments, by my mentally placing myself in a pantomimic attitude of humiliation with half-closed eyes, bowed head, and uplifted palms, while at the same time I was aware of myself as of a mental puppet, in that position.  This same word will serve to illustrate the other groups also.  It so happened in connection with “abasement” that the word “David” or “King David” occurred to me on one occasion in each of three out of the four trials; also that an accidental misreading, or perhaps the merely punning association of the words “a basement,” brought up on all four occasions the image of the foundations of a house that the builders had begun upon.

So much for the character of the association; next as to that of the words.  I found, after the experiments were over, that the words were divisible into three distinct groups.  The first contained “abbey,” “aborigines,” “abyss,” and others that admitted of being presented under some mental image.  The second group contained “abasement,” “abhorrence,” “ablution,” etc., which admitted excellently of histrionic representation.  The third group contained the more abstract words, such as “afternoon,” “ability,” “abnormal,” which were variously and imperfectly dealt with by my mind.  I give the results in the upper part of Table III., and, in order to save trouble, I have reduced them to percentages in the lower lines of the Table.

TABLE III. 
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE QUALITY OF THE WORDS AND THAT OF
THE IDEAS IN IMMEDIATE ASSOCIATION WITH THEM.
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Number  |              |         |          |                    |      |
of words |              | Sense   |Histrionic|   Purely Verbal    |      |
in each  |              |Imagery. |          | Names  | Phrases   | Total|
series.  |              |         |          |   of   |   and     |      |
|              |         |          |Persons.|Quotations.|      |
|              |---------+----------+--------+-----------+------+
26    |"Abbey” series|   46    |    12    |   32   |    17     | 107  |
20    |"Abasement” " |   25    |    26    |   11   |    17     |  79  |
29    |"Afternoon” " |   23    |    27    |   16   |    38     | 104  |