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(No account is taken here of vertical movements.) While these 

 differences are not marked they all point to a handicap in the 

 leftward movement of the right arm. Or again if the hold-ups, 

 "occurring during distribution" and in "memory" be tabulated 

 according to leftward and rightward movements, there being 23 

 of each, and irrespective of feeling tone, it shows that 64.7 per 

 cent hold-ups "during distribution" and 62.5 per cent for "mem- 

 ory" occurred with leftward movements, and that 35.5 per cent 

 of hold-ups in "distribution" and 37.5 per cent for "memory" 

 occurred with the rightward. 



Our search for causal relations between feelings and the in- 

 tegration of movements into skilful patterns has shown that in- 

 hibitions and errors of whatever sort correlate with both feelings 



TABLE 9 



Showing relation between errors, dropped cards and direction of movement 



and with du-ection of movements; and it further appears that, 

 while feeling qualities may hinder or facilitate integration at 

 least of the grosser movements, the fundamental factor is the 

 direction of movements. 



The relative values of feelings of movements and of direction 

 of movements in the acquisition of skill are considered as far as 

 the facts will permit in the general summary. 



D. General summary and conclusion 



1. The feeling tone aroused by the application of stimulus to 

 the sense organs may check or stimulate to some extent the oper- 

 ation of a skilful mechanism already formed, and it appears that 



