612 SPEAKING, READING, AND WRITING. 



pearance of this word when written or its corresponding 

 sound. 



From this stand-point we may, in the second place, 

 look to the relative definiteness and recoverability of the 

 Kingesthetic Impressions consequent upon Speech-move- 

 ments. We may find then, that the Impressions which 

 accompany actual Speech-movements for different words 

 can only vaguely be realized as distinct from one another, 

 and that they are certainly far less distinctive than the 

 Kinsesthetic Impressions derived from the acts involved 

 in Writing different words. The general rule, that the 

 vaguer the Sensation the lower is its degree of recoverability 

 in Idea, certainly holds good here also — as any one may 

 discover who will make the necessary comparative trials. 



Thus, slight as may be the power of recalling the 

 Kinaesthetic Impressions derived from Writing, the ability 

 to recall those occasioned by Speech is even less. But 

 that there should be such a difference is no other than 

 might have been expected, since a precisely similar dif- 

 ference obtains in regard to impressions from ' automatic * 

 movements generally as compared with those of a move 

 * voluntary ' order. 



