The notes here may be quoted as corroborative of previous statements. "I notice," says one, "a tendency of the color in the full-faced figure to spread over the background"--a remark which bears out what has been said of the relative vagueness of the subjective processes excited by a broad homogeneous surface. To this may be added: "The full-faced figures became finally less distinct than the linear, and faded from the outside in;" "the areal (full-faced) figure gradually faded away, while the linear remained." Another comment runs: "I feel the left (full-faced) striving to come into consciousness, but failing to arrive. Don't see it; feel it; and yet the feeling is connected with the eyes." This comment, made, of course, after the close of an observation, may serve as evidence of processes subsidiary to ideation, and may be compared, in respect of the motor factors which the 'striving' implies, with the preparatory stage which Binet found to be an inseparable and essential part of any given (vocal) motor reaction.[8] [8] Binet, A. et Henri, V.: _op. citat._ _Series No. XII._--Both the figures of each pair in this series were linear, and presented the same extent of surface (granite-gray) with the same length of line. In other words, both figures were constituted of the same elements, and in both the corresponding lines ran in the same direction; but the lines in the one were connected so as to form a figure with a continuous boundary, while the lines of the other were disconnected, _i.e._, did not inclose a space. The total length of line in each object was twenty centimeters, the breadth of the lines five millimeters. Both figures were arranged symmetrically with respect to a perpendicular axis. [Illustration: FIG. 6.] TABLE XII. 1 2 3 4 5 Indiv. Av. L F L F L F L F L F L F I. 31.5 24 30 24.5 23.5 32 25.5 30.5 27 29.5 27.5 28.1 II. 55 55 56 56 56 56 56.5 56.5 54 54 55.5 55.5 III. 22 6 26.5 9.5 31.5 1.5 23 5.5 28.5 0 26.3 4.5 IV. 31 15 46.5 20.5 52 9.5 49 6 55 18 46.7 13.8 V. 56 54 56 56 56 56 56.5 56.5 55.5 55.5 56.0 55.6 VI. 33 30 34 39.5 31.5 29.5 26.5 32 26 31.5 30.2 32.5 VII. 55.5 49.5 56.5 38 54.5 35 57.5 32.5 38 27 52.4 36.4 VIII. 26.5 15.5 21.5 13.5 25 17 25.5 21 15 13.5 22.7 16.1 IX. 45.5 32.5 44.5 39 42.5 35.5 41.5 37.5 43 40.5 43.4 37.0 X. 29.5 23 36.5 16 23 28.5 35.5 16.5 29 23 30.7 21.4 XI. 52 8 49.5 19 45.5 25 43.5 21.5 15 31.5 41.1 21.0 39.77 28.41 41.77 30.18 40.10 29.60 40.05 28.73 35.10 29.50 39.32 29.26 L: Interrupted lines. F: Figure with continuous boundary. (Figure in outline.) General average: Lines, 39.32 sec.; figure, 29.26 sec.