letter-pointing

Updated: May 3, 2025

Of course there is the alternative explanation of this fact that a straight push-and-pull action is easier to accomplish than the more detailed and complicated action of forming words and letters. But that would not make plain to us why it is that no attempt at writing should be made, very often, until the letter-pointing system is adopted.

Hereward Carrington - The Problems of Psychical Research: Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal