AND ALLIED CONDITIONS. HARRIS. 317 



The following verses — for I hesitate to call them poetry — 

 seem to be an attempt to express the associations of emotions 

 symbolised by the mental colourings of the vowels: 



VOYELLES 



A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, bleu, voyelles, 

 Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes; 

 A, noir corset velu des mouches eclatantes 

 Qui bombillent autour des puanteurs cruelles. 



Golfes d'ombre, E, candeur des vapeurs et des tentes, 

 Lances des guerriers fiers, rois blancs, frissons d'ombelles, 

 I, pourpres, sang crache, rire des levres belles 

 Dans la colere ou les ivresses penitentes. 



U, cycles vibrement divins des mers virides, 

 Paix des patis semes d'animaux, paix des rides 

 Que I'alchemie imprime aux grands fronts studieux, 



0, supreme clairon plein de strideurs etranges. 

 Silence traversee des Mondes et des Anges, 

 O, I'omega, rayon violet des ses yeux. 



J. A. Rimbaud. 



We are now perhaps in a position to make some inquiry 

 into the characteristic features of coloured thinking. The 

 first point that strikes one is the very early age at which 

 these associations are fixed. This was a feature recognized 

 by Galton in hig classic examination of the subject in 1883(^°) 

 The present author's observations fully confirm this point; 

 he has in his possession many letters from coloured thinkers 

 in which the details of their psychochromes differ in the 

 widest possible manner, but all agree in that they testify to 

 the very early age at which the associations were formed. 

 After the publication of the writer's article in the "Scotsman," 

 December 29th, 1908, (^^) he received a number of letters 

 spontaneously sent, all emphasising this feature in such 



