The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1883 |
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Page 217 - Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience.
Page 213 - The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Page 293 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 467 - Being the constant and infinitely repeated elements of thought, they must become the automatic elements of thought — the elements of thought which it is impossible to get rid of — the '
Page 164 - Each feeling, as we here define it, is any portion of con. Bciousness which occupies a place sufficiently large to give it a perceivable individuality ; which has its individuality marked' off from adjacent portions of consciousness by qualitative contrasts; and which, when introspectively contemplated, appears to be homogeneous.
Page 487 - To havo succeeded in gaining such attachment from, and sway over, another, is a proof of power which cannot fail agreeably to excite the amour propre. Yet again, the proprietary feeling has its share in the general activity : there is the pleasure of possession — the two belong to each other. Once more, the relation allows of an extended liberty of action.
Page 468 - If, at birth, there exists nothing but a passive receptivity of impressions, why is not a horse as educable as a man ? Should it be said that language makes the difference, then why do not the cat and the dog, reared in the same household, arrive at equal degrees and kinds of intelligence?
Page 75 - What is the special action of oxygen — whether it is a direct disintegrant of the tissues, including nerve-tissue; or whether it simply facilitates by its presence molecular disintegrations otherwise caused ; or whether it serves merely to combine with, and carry away, the products of such disintegrations otherwise caused ; are questions about which there are differences of opinion. But there can be no difference of opinion as to the necessity for an oxygenated blood. And opinions can scarcely...