This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... VISIBLE FORMS. 357 The circumstances that favour this acquisition arc, as before, partly general and partly special The general adhesiveness of the system being assumed, the special condition is retentiveness for Ocular Movements. According to the assumption formerly made, this will be found ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... VISIBLE FORMS. 357 The circumstances that favour this acquisition arc, as before, partly general and partly special The general adhesiveness of the system being assumed, the special condition is retentiveness for Ocular Movements. According to the assumption formerly made, this will be found accompanying the special power of discrimination in those muscles, the consequence, uo doubt, of a high development in the centres for regulating their movements. Next to the general and the local retentiveness, we must advert to the mental Concentration, as due more especially to interest, taste, or liking, or a regard to the end to be served. We have noted three different classes of outline forms, all equally retainable, so far as the muscular ret DEGREESativeness of the eye is concerned, but whose retention is stimulated by very different motives. These are Scientific forms, as the figures of Euclid; Arbitrary forms, as in written language; and Artistic forms. The attention to the first is prompted by whatever feelings constitute the scientific interest, or taste; the secoud class, the arbitrary forms of language, are aided by our interest in the ends of language, either for ordinary purposes, or for the studies of the scholar; the attention to the last is stimulated by the sensibility to Art Looking at the peculiarities of these several cases, we can note that there is a greater concentration of mind upon the forms of Science and of Art, these being few and important, than upon the symbols of language, which are numerous and individually unimportant in the comparison. One would say that, in the case of language and arbitrary symbols, a high natural, disinterested, or unstimulated adhesiveness, would be requisite. A strong motive for concentrating
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