THE HASHEESH EATER
in the form of some visible symbol which most exquisitely
embodied it. For hours every sound had its colour and its
form to him as truly as scenery could have them.
The fact, never witnessed by me before, of a mind in that
state being able to give its phenomena to another and philo-
sophise about them calmly, afforded me the means of a most
clear investigation. I found that his case was exactly
analogous to those of B. and myself; for, like us, he recog-
nised in distinct inner types every possible sensation, our
words making a visible emblematic procession before his eyes,
and every perception of whatever sense becoming tangible to
him as form and audible as music.
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