Imagery of touch
Initially, the author knew nothing about philosophy but he had the interest to learn it. However, he is not aware of where to start. His personal touch with philosophy starts to develop when he first reads a philosophical book during the class of William Hamilton. This imagery of touch is critical because it helps the reader to experience the feeling of the narrator when he first read a philosophical book. He writes:
“Professor Fraser’s Essays in Philosophy, then just published, was the first philosophic book I ever looked into, and I well remember the awestruck feeling I received from the account of Sir William Hamilton’s classroom therein contained.”
Imagery of Hearing
The imagery of hearing manifests itself when Fox is commanded by the Lord to cry. When he reaches the shepherds, the Lord asks him to remove his shoes. When he does as directed, the Lord tells him to cry, 'Wo to the bloody city of Litchfield!' The cry appeals to the sense of hearing to the reader. The narrator writes:
“Then I walked on about a mile, and as soon as I was got within the city, the word of the Lord came to me again, saying: Cry, ‘Wo to the bloody city of Lichfield!’ So I went up and down the streets, crying with a loud voice, Wo to the bloody city of Lichfield! It being market day, I went into the market-place, and to and fro in the several parts of it, and made stands, crying as before, Wo to the bloody city of Lichfield! And no one laid hands on me.”
The Imagery of the sexual theory
The narrator uses the sexual theory to appeal the sense of hearing to the reader. He compares sexual theory to religion. He argues that sexual development takes place in stages and religion is supposed to do the same. He says that the religious message as good as much reasoning one listens to in favor of the sexual theory. The narrator writes:
"These arguments are as good as much of the reasoning one hears in favor of the sexual theory. But the champions of the latter will then say that their chief argument has no analog elsewhere."
The Imagery of Sight
The narrator depicts the imagery of sight using the act of looking. The description offered by the narrator helps the reader to be able to form an imaginary image in their brains to interpret what is happening. He writes:
“Let us ourselves look at the matter in the largest possible way. Modern psychology, finding definite psycho-physical connections to hold good, assumes as a convenient hypothesis that the dependence of mental states upon bodily conditions must be thoroughgoing and complete.”
