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So also when we speak or write, ideas evoke acoustic
combined with kinesthetic images, which are at once
transformed into visual word images. The speaker or
writer can now hardly conceive of language, except in
printed or written form; the reflex actions by which the
process of reading or writing is performed have become
so ‘instinctive’ and are performed with such facile
rapidity, that the change from the auditory to the visual
is concealed from the reader or writer, and makes analysis
of it a matter of great difficulty. It may be that acoustic
and kinesthetic images are inseparable, and that ‘image’
as such is an abstraction made for purposes of analysis,
but which is non-existent considered in itself and as pure.
But whatever account the individual may render of his