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demand u|)()ii the nervous force and commensurately giving 
importance to the consideration of the snbject. 
In this case also the nervous energy, instead of being exj)ended 
in an effort at reception tlirough several cliannels, was limited 
mainlj' to one, distinctively volitional, and furthermore instead 
of being expended in part upon tlie elaboration of different 
methods of expression, was devoted almost solely to reception. 
The intelligence, therefore, which had been slowly educated by 
an expenditure of effort on the child's own part, reactively was 
constantly increasing her perceptive power, so that when through 
the utilization of her quickened tactile sense new forms of expres- 
sion were afforded her, the concentrated and imprisoned nervous 
energy burst its bound in a flood of questions which shows no 
signs of diminution. There is no fair^^ land imaginable which 
will compare in its wonders to the new world into which this child 
lias entered within the past three years. 
The value of her memorizing faculty from the tactile point of 
view is still further illustrated in the growth of her speech. It is 
onl}^ necessary to watch her closely during the half-minute in 
which she will acquire an entirely new word and to hear her 
reproduce it days afterward, to appreciate the impression which 
that most delicate of the co-ordinate movements has made upon 
her memorizing power, and whicii thus illustrates the statement of 
Bain, who says (Senses and intellect, p. 330) : "When we recall 
the impression of a word or sentence, if we do not sj)eak it out, we 
feel the twitter of the organs just about to come to that point. 
The articulating parts, the larynx, the tongue, the; li|ts, are all 
sensibly excited. The suppressed articulation is in fact tlu; 
material of our recollection, the intellectual manifestation, tlie 
idea of speech." 
In the same manner, the ra]Mdity of her perception of form 
through the tactile sense is illustrated by her maimer of handling 
objects after the first or second examination. A com|)licate(l 
object, a glass mirror centrally ])erforated and fitted with a head 
ban<l for instance, which at the first examination had been care- 
fully investigated in all its parts, was subsequently dismissed with 
a casual touch which happened to light upon the central opening 
in the face of the mirror, upon the buckle on the frame of the 
head band ; one of the component parts in the instrument, as 
appreciate<l by the touch of a finger, being enough to bring up the 
ima^e of the whole. 
