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 THE SPATIAL HAEMONY OF TOUCH AND SIGHT. 505 actually felt in that position, and when touch suggests some definite visual position where the object shall be seen, and it is actually seen there, sight and touch are then harmonious. The essential conditions of the harmony are merely those which are necessary to build up a reliable cross-reference between the two senses. This view, which was at first based on the results with the inverting lenses, is now given a wider interpretation, since it seems evident from the later experiment that a given tactual position may have its correlated visual place not only in any direction, but also at any distance, in the visual field.