AND ALLIED CONDITIONS.— HARRIS. 325 



deviate from the normal, coloured thinkers are, of course, 

 abnormal, but there is nothing in them allied to instability 

 of mental balance. Some coloured thinkers may, no doubt, 

 belong to families in which some degree of mental instability 

 is present, or, on the other hand, some relatives of coloured 

 thinkers may possess a high degree of artistic or musical 

 ability, of scientific or philosophical insight, that quality 

 in fact, of genius so exceedingly difficult to define. Genius 

 is something notoriously not conferred by training or educa- 

 tion, if not inborn it cannot be acquired; exactly the same 

 may be said of coloured thinking. Our studies have at least 

 shown us this, that it is not in the ordinary type of mental 

 constitution but in the recesses of the slightly supernormal 

 that this recondite problem of psychology presents itself for 

 analysis and explanation. 



Appendix 

 Being the psychochromes in an actual case. 

 a. — blue- white (like a dead tadpole), 

 b. — dark brown-red. 

 c- — brighter red. 

 d. — pea-green, 

 e. — fawn-yellow, 

 f. — a yellow, brighter than e. 

 g. — dark brown, nearly black. 

 h. — black. 



i. — chocolate brown. 



j. — a dull red (not the same shade as the other reds). 

 k. — bright brick-red. 

 1. — black, 

 m. — bright yellow, 

 n. — dark brown (nearly black). 

 o. — white. 



p. — white with just a tinge of blue, 

 q. — pale blue-green, 

 r. — black (nearer to h than to 1). 



