Pain, Pleasure, and Æsthetics: An Essay Concerning the Psychology of Pain and PleasureMacmillan and Company, 1894 - 364 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 74 - The heart beats quickly and violently, so that it palpitates or knocks against the ribs; but it is very doubtful...
الصفحة 74 - That the skin is much affected under the sense of great fear, we see in the marvelous and inexplicable manner in which perspiration immediately exudes from it. This exudation is all the more remarkable, as the surface is then cold, and hence the term a cold sweat; whereas, the sudorific glands are properly excited into action when the surface is heated. The hairs also on the skin stand erect; and the superficial muscles shiver. In connection with the disturbed action of the heart, the breathing is...
الصفحة 221 - ... is experienced whenever the physical activity, coincident with the psychic state to which the pleasure is attached, involves the use of surplus stored force...
الصفحة 81 - That the eyebrows are raised by an innate or instinctive impulse may be inferred from the fact that Laura Bridgman invariably acts thus when astonished, as I have been assured by the lady who has lately had charge of her. As surprise is excited by something unexpected or unknown, we naturally desire, when startled, to perceive the cause as quickly as possible ; and we consequently open our eyes fully, so that the field of vision may be increased, and the eyeballs moved easily in any direction.
الصفحة 32 - Imperfect as is the science of mind, I do not scruple to affirm, that it is in a considerably more advanced state than the portion of physiology which corresponds to it ; and to discard the former for the latter appears to me an infringement of the true canons of inductive philosophy...
الصفحة 339 - All that is diffused and indistinct, without form or sex or accent, is antagonistic to beauty, for the mind's first need is light. Light means order ; and order means, in the first place, the distinction of the parts, in the second, their regular action. Beauty is based on reason.
الصفحة 263 - ... if the states of consciousness which a creature endeavours to maintain are the correlatives of injurious actions, and if the states of consciousness which it endeavours to expel are the correlatives of beneficial actions, it must quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious...
الصفحة 205 - Pain is experienced whenever the physical action which determines the content is so related to the supply of nutriment to its organ that the energy involved in the reaction to the stimulus is less in amount than the energy which the stimulus habitually calls forth.
الصفحة xiii - Bounded and conditioned by cooperant Reason, imagination becomes the mightiest instrument of the physical discoverer. Newton's passage from a falling apple to a falling moon was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination.
الصفحة 311 - It seems clear to me that the relative grace of the suspension bridge and of the cantilever truss is principally determined by the fact that the catenary curve in the one case presents to us nature's pendent form, while the strutted extensions of the cantilever bring to us other lines than those in accord with which she has educated us.