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A. Abercrombie, Dr. J, 141, note[82], 278. Abnormal life, relation of, to normal, 1, 120, 121, 124, 182, 277, 284, note[132], 336; effects of amputation, 62; modification of sensibility in, 65; gross sense-illusions of, 111, hallucinations of, 118; sense of personal identity in, 289. Active, stage in perception, 27; illusion distinguished from passive, 45, 332-334. Actor. See Theatre. Adaptation, illusion as want of, 124, 188, 339. Æsthetic intuition, 213; illusions of, 214. After-dreams, 144, 183. After-sensation, after-impression, 55, 115. Anæsthesia, 65. Ancestral experience, results of, 281. Animals, recognition of portraits by, 105; expectation of, 298. Anthropomorphism, 225, 360. Anticipation. See Expectation. Apparitions. See Hallucination. Aristotle, 130. Art, illusions of, 77, 104. Artemidoros, 129. Association, laws of, in perception, 22; in dreams, 153, 156; link of resemblance in dreams, 159; associative dispositions in dreams, 169; effect of, in insight, 221; inseparable, 359. Associationist, views of, 349, 352, 355. Attention, involved in perception 21; absence of, in sense-illusion, 39, 87; relation of, to recognition of objects, 90; expectant, 93; attitude of, in dreaming, 137, 172; to internal mental states, 194; absence of, in errors of insight, 228. Authority, influence of, in introspection, 210; in belief, 325. Autobiography, errors connected with, 276, 280. Automatic activity of centres, in hallucinations, 113; in dreams, 136, 151; automatic intellectual processes, 300, 335, 352. B. Baillarger, J., 13, note [1], 113, note[57], 119, notes[64] and [65]], 120, note[66]. Bain, Dr. A., 32, note[12], 117, note[60], 190. Beattie, J., 141, note[82]]. Beauty, sentiment of, 206, 213. Belief, immediate, 14, 15, 294; simple and compound, 296; illusory forms of, 297; simple expectation, 297; expectation, of extra-personal experiences, 307; retrospective, 309; in persistent objects and persons, 312; self-esteem, 315; representation of classes of things, 322; representations of mankind, 322; representation of life and the world as a whole, 322; as predisposition to error, 324; amount of divergence in, 325; tendency towards convergence in, 326. Beneficial, correct knowledge as, 340; illusion as, 342. Berkeley, Bishop, 218, 349, note[154]. Binet, A., 53, note[20]. Boismont, Brierre de, 11, note[1]. Börner, J., 146. Braid, James, 186, 187. Brewster, Sir D., 42, 73, 81, 116. Brücke, E., 77, note[38]. Byron, Lord, 116. C. Carpenter, Dr. W.B., 32, note[12], 108, 110, note[56], 186, 231, note[111], 265, note[125], 276. Castle-building, as illusory perception, 3, 99. Cause, idea of, in science, 344; reality of relation of, 347, 349, 356, 360. Change, a condition of conscious life, 252, 287, note[133]. Childhood, our recollections of, 263, 269. Children, curiosity of, 175, 180; estimate of time by, 256; confusion of dream and waking life by, 276; imagination of, 279; self-assertion of, 319; intellectual condition of, 357, note[159]. Clarke, Dr. E.H., 117. Classification, in recognition of sensation, 21; in recognition, of object, 24; in introspective recognition, 193. Clifford, Professor W.K., 56, note[24]. Coalescence, of sensations, 43, 52; of dream-images, 162; of internal feelings, 196; of mnemonic images, 265. Cœnæsthesis, 41, 99, 145, 286, 288. Cognition, immediate or intuitive, 5, 14-16, 294; presentative and representative, 9, 13, 217, 330; nature of, in dreams, 168, 172; nature of, generally, 295, 331; philosophic problems of, 346. Colour, external reality of, 8, 37; illusory perception of, 37, 88; subjective complementary colours (colour-contrast), 67, 83. Coloured media, objects seen through, 82. Common cognition, and truth, 337; genesis and validity of, 353. Common experience distinguished from individual, 26, 27, 137, 209, 214, 336, 351; illusion as, 47,325, 337. Common sense, intuitions of, 346, 349, 352, 357. Complementary colours, 67, 83. Concave, apparent conversion of, into convex, 84. Conjuror, tricks of, 56, 106. Consciousness, veracity of, 192, 205; inspection of phenomena of, 196; of self, 283, 285. Consensus, the standard of truth, 7, 8, 211, 325, 338, 357. Conservation of energy, 343. Construction, rational, in dreams, 170. Continuum, the perception of the world as, 52, 56, note[24] . Correction of illusion, in sense-illusion, 38, 124, 137; dreams, 182; introspection, 210; insight, 229; memory, 291; historical correction 338; intellectual processes involved in, 351. Criterion of illusion, 337. Cudworth, R., 161 D. Deception of the senses, 19; self-deception, 200; conscious deception of others, 222. Delbœuf, J., 175, note[97]. 235, note[113]. Delirium tremens, 118, note[62]. Democritus, 130. De Quincey, 253, 280. Descartes, R., 116, 350. Dickens, Charles, 277. Direction, illusory sense of, in vision, 66, 71, 73; in hearing, 72, 75. Disease. See Abnormal life. Dissolution. See Evolution. Doubt, starting-point in philosophy, 350. Dreams, relation of, to illusions of sense, 18, 130; and waking experience, 127; theories of, 128; physiology of, 131; extent of, in sleep, 132; psychological conditions of, 136; excitants of, 139, 143; exaggeration in, 147; symbolism of, 149; as results of automatic activity of centres, 151; as results of association, 153; structure of, 156; incoherent, 156; coherent, 161; action of feeling in, 164; play of associative dispositions in, 168; co-operation of attention and intelligence in, 172; limits of intelligence in, 180; after-dreams, 183, 274; relation of, to hypnotic condition, 185; experience of, in relation to errors of memory, 273. E. Eccentricity, law of, 59. Ego. See Self. Emotion, and illusion of perception, 103; and hallucination, 115; and bodily sensations, 150; control of dreams by, 164; introspection of, 199; and illusion of introspection, 203; and æsthetic intuition, 213; and illusion of memory, 270; and illusion of belief, 306, 324; and cognition generally, 357, note[159]. Empiricism, philosophic, 348. Ennui, and sense of time, 250. Environment, sources of sense-illusion in, 47, 48, 70; view of, in mental disease, 290, 326; view of, in normal life, 323; action of, in assimilating belief, 339. Error, immediate and mediate, 6, 334. Esquirol, J.E.D., 12, note[2]. Evolution, relation of, to dissolution, 122; of power of introspection, 209; of power of insight, 230; and self-assertion, 320; evolutionist's view of error, 339; doctrine of, as science, 346. Exaggeration, in interpretation of sensations, 65; in dream-interpretation, 147; in memory, 269. Expectation, preliminary to perception, 30; and illusory perception, 93, 102, 106; nature of, 295; and memory, 298; of new experience, 301; of remote events, 302; measurement of duration in, 302; action of imagination in, 305; extension of meaning of, 307, 308. Experience, effect of, in perception, 22, 68, 85, 86, 91; external and internal, 194, 210; revivals of waking, in dreams, 152; effects of present, on retrospection, 267; anticipation of new, 301. External world. See World. F. Fallacy and illusion 6, 335; of testimony, 265. Familiarity, sense of, in new objects, 272, 281. Fechner, G.T., 51. Ferrier, Dr., 32, note[12], 58, note[26]. Fiction, as producing illusion, 278, 279, 311. Fitness. See Adaptation. Flattery, rationale of, 200, 222. Forgetfulness and illusion, 278, 279, 311. Free-will, doctrine of, 207, 342, 356. Future. See Expectation. G. Galton, F., 117. Ghosts. See Hallucination. Goethe, 116, 117, 280 and note[131]. Griesinger, W., 13, note[2], 63, note[31], 66, note[32], 115, 118, note[62], 119, note[64] , 120, note[66], 290, note[135], 327, note[146]. Gruithuisen, 143, 144. Gurney, E., 224, note[109]. H. Hall, G.S., 186, note[102]. Hallucination, and illusion, 11, 109, 111, 112, 121; and subjective sensation, 63, 109, 121; sensory and motor, 66; nervous conditions of, 112-114; incomplete and complete, 113; as having either central or peripheral origin, 113; causes of, classified, 115; in sane condition, 116; in insanity, 118; visual and auditory, 119; dreams regarded as, 139, 151; hypnagogic, 143; after-dreams and ghosts, 183; of memory, 271; relation of, to errors of belief, 322; intuition of external world regarded as, 355. Happiness, feeling of, 200. Harmful, illusion as, 188, 229, 292, 339. Harmless, illusions as, 124, 292, 341. Hartley, D., 139, 256, note[124], 279. Hearing, as mode of perception, 34, 48; localization of impression in, 60; sense of direction in, 72; activity of, in sleep, 140; and muscular sense, 171. Heidenhain, Dr., 186-188. Helmholtz, H., 22, 23, note[7], 44, 51, 54 and note[22], 55, note[23], 57, 67, note[33], 78, note[39], 80, 85, note[43], 88, 90, 207, note[105]. Heraclitus, 137. Heredity, and illusion of memory, 280; action of, in perpetuating intuition, 359. Hering, E., 67, note[33]. Hodgson, Shadworth H., 347, note[153]. Holland, Sir H., 277. Hood, Thomas, 146. Hope, illusory. See Expectation. Hoppe, Dr. J.I., 51, 58, note[26]. Horwicz, A., 145, note[85]. Hume, D., 355. Huxley, Professor T., 119, note[63]. Hyperæsthesia, 65. Hypnotism, 185. Hypochondria, 65. Hypothesis, as illusory, 310, 311. I. Idealism, 348. Identity, cases of mistaken, 267. Identity, personal, confusion of, in dreams, 163; consciousness of, 241, 267, 282, 285; illusory forms of, 283; gross disturbances of, in normal life, 287; in abnormal life, 289; momentary confusions of, 293. Illusion, definition of, 1; varieties of, 9; extent of, 328; rationale of, 331, 337. Image (physical). See Reflection. Image (mental), in perception, 22; seat of, 32; in dreams, 138; mnemonic, 236. Imagination, play of, in perception, 95, 99; and sense-illusion, 106; nature of, in dreaming, 136, 161; as antecedent of dream, 152, 158; as poetic interpretation of nature, 224; memory corrupted by effect of past, 264, 273, 277; present, creating the semblance of recollection, 267, 271; play of, in expectation, 305; as element of illusion generally, 333. Immediate. See Cognition. Individual, and common experience, 26, 27, 137, 209, 214, 336; dream-experience as, 44, 68; internal experience as, 209; memory as, 232; belief and truth, 338. Inference, and immediate knowledge, 6, 334; in perception, 22, 26, 68; in belief, 295. Innate, recollection as, 280; principles, 295, 356. Insane, sense-illusions of, 63, 65, 111; hallucinations of, 118; dreaming and state of, 182; mnemonic illusions of, 278, 289; beliefs of, 327. Insight, nature of, 217; illusions of, defined, 220; passive illusions of, 220; histrionic illusion, 222; active illusions of, 223; poetic interpretation of nature, 224; value of faculty of, 228. Interpretation, in correct perception, 22; of impression and experience, 70; and volition, 95; and fixed habits of mind, 101; and temporary attitude of mind, 102; of sensations in dreams, 137, 147; of internal feelings, 203; of others' feelings, 217; of nature by poet, 225; recollection as, 242. Introspection, nature of, 14, 189; illusory forms of, 190; confusion of inner and outer experiences, 194; inaccurate inspection of feelings, 196; presentation and representation confused, 199; feelings and inferences from these, 203; moral self-scrutiny, 204; philosophic, 205; value of, 208. Intuition. See Cognition. Intuitivism, 348. J. Jackson, Dr. J. Hughlings, 27, note[9], 33, 123, note[67]. Johnson, Dr., 116. K. Klang, as compound sensation, 53. Knowledge. See Cognition. L. Language, function of, 195. Leibnitz, 133. Lélut, L.F., 120, note[66]. Lessing, G. E., 133, note[73]. Leuret, 290, note[135]. Lewes, G.H., 28, 32, note[12], 52, note[18], 62, note[30], 68, note[35], 89, note[45], 115, note[58], 150. Life, our estimate of, 323, 326, 327. Light, sensation and perception of, 59; effects of reflection and refraction, of, 73; representation, of, in painting, 88, 91; action of, in sleep, 140. Localization, as local discrimination of sensations, 52; as localizing of sensations, 59, 60; illusory, 61, 82; in hallucination, 118, 119; in dreaming, 148; of events in time, in memory, 238, 245; in expectation, 304. Locke, 133, note[73]. Lotze, H., 60, note[29]. Lover, illusion of, 224, 227, 342. Luminosity of painting, 88, 91. Lustre, as compound sensation, 54. Lyell, Sir Charles, 311. M. Magic, arts of, 73. Magnitude, apparent, in vision, 75, note[37]; perception of, in pictorial art, 88, 91; of time-intervals, 245, 249; recollection of, 268. Malebranche, 116. Mankind, our views of, 322. Matter. See World (material). Maudsley, Dr. H., 32, note[12]. Maury, A., 140, 143, 153, note[92], 159, 163, note[94] ,173. Mayer, Dr. A., 66, note[32]. Measurement, subjective, of time, 245. Media, coloured, illusions connected with presence of, 82. Memory, nature of, 9, 13, 231; veracity of, 232, 290; defined, 234; psychology of, 236; physiology of, 237; localization of events in, 238; and sense of personal identity, 241, 283; illusions of, 241; illusory localization, 245, 256; distortions of, 261; hallucinations of, 271; illusions respecting personal identity, 283; relation of, to belief, 295; compared with expectation, 297; and inference, 335. Metempsychosis, 294. Meyer, H., 83, 144. Mill, J.S., 298, note[138], 309. Mirrors, as means of delusion, 73. Misanthropist, 2, 323. Mitchell, Dr. Weir, 62. Monomania, 111. Moral, intuition, 216; self-inspection, 204. Motor illusions. See Muscular sense. Movement, apparent, 50, 57, 73, 81, 95, 107; in dreams, 142, 154. Müller, Johannes, 58, note[27], 100, 117, 143. Muscæ volitantes, 118, note[62]. Muscular sense, in perception, 23; illusions connected with, 50, 57, 62, 66; co-operation, of, in dreams, 142, 154. Music, subjective interpretation of, 223. N. Natural selection, effect of, in eliminating error, 340. Nature, personification of, 224; uniformity of, 344, 360. Necessity, idea of, 349, 360. Nervous system, and conditions of perception, 31; connections of, 32, 169; function of, and force of stimulus, 47, 50; prolonged activity of, 55; specific energy of, 58; variations in state of, 64; fatigue of, 65, 115; disease of, ibid.; nervous conditions of hallucination, 112, 115; nervous dissolution and evolution, 122; condition of, in sleep, 131; in hypnotic condition, 186; nervous conditions of memory, 237; nervous conditions of illusion in general, 334. Normal life, relation of, to abnormal, 1, 121, 124, 182, 277, 284, note[132]; hallucinations of, 116. O. Object, nature of, 36, 353. Objective and subjective experience, 26, 27, 137, 214. Old age, dreams how regarded in, 276. Oneirocritics, 129. Opera, illusion connected with, 104. Optimism, 323, 327, 342. Organic sensations, discrimination of, 41; interpretation of, 99; in sleep, 145, 148. Organism, conditions of illusion in, 47, 50; relation of our conception of the universe to sensibilities of, 343. Orientation, 125, 138. P. Pain, recollection of, 264, 270. Painting, representation of third dimension by, 77; apparent movement of eye in portrait, 81; discrepancies between, and object in magnitude and luminosity, 88; realization of, and mental preparation, 105; realization of, by animals, 105. Paræsthesia, 68. Paralysis of ocular muscles, 66. Passive, and active factor in perception, 27; and active illusion, 45. Percept, 22; and sense-impression, 59. Perception, a form of immediate knowledge, 10, 13, 17, 18; external and internal, 14; philosophy of, 14, 20, 22, 36, 346, 348, 353, 355, 359; illusions of, 19, 35; psychology of, 20; and inference, 22, 26, 76; physiological conditions of, 31. Persistent objects, representation of, 312. Persistent self. See Personal identity. Personal equation, in perception, 101; in æsthetic intuition, 214; in memory, 292; in belief, 324. Personal identity, consciousness of, 241, 282, 285; illusions connected with, 283; disturbances in sense of, 287; sense of, in insanity, 289; momentary confusions of, 293; philosophic problem of, 285, 354, 360. Personification of nature, 224. Perspective, linear, 79, 97, 98; aerial, 80; of memory, 245. Pessimism, 323, 327. Phenomenalism, 348. Philosophy, conception of illusion by, 7, 36, 205, 285, 349; of mind, 132, 285, 344, 348; as theory of knowledge, 295, 346; and science, 346, 348; and common sense, 347, 349; problems of, 347. Phosphenes, 58. Physical science. See Science. Plato, 281. Platonists, 349. Pleasure, feeling of, 200; recollection of, 264, 270. Plutarch, 133, note[73]. Poetry, lyrical and dreams, 164; misinterpretation of, 223; personification, 224. Points, discrimination of, 52. Poisons, action of, 115. Pollock, F., 184, note[101]. Pollock, W.H., 184. Predisposition, action of, in perception, 44, 101, 102; in æsthetic intuition, 215; in insight, 223; in recollection, 268; in belief, 305, 319; belief as, 324. Prejudice. See Predisposition. Prenatal experience, recollection of, 281. Preperception, 27; illusions connected with, 44, 93; voluntary, 95; result of habit of mind, 101; result of temporary conditions, 102; as sub-expectation, 102; as definite expectation, 106. Presentation and representation, 9, 10, 13, 14, 192, 234, 329, 330. Projection, outward, of sensations, 63; of mental image, 111, 112; of solid form on flat, 79, 81, 96. Prophetic, dreams as, 129, 147, note[88]; enthusiast, 307. Psychology, popular and scientific, 9, 10; distinguished from philosophy, 14, 36, 345, 352; introspective method of, 208; as a kind of philosophy, 305. Public events, localization, of, by memory, 258. R. Radestock, P., 130, note[71], 132, note[72], 134, note[75], 140, 141, 149, note[90], 162, 182, 275. Rationalism, philosophic, 348. Realism, 348. Reality, nature of, 36, 346. Recognition, and perception, 24, 25; illusions of, 87; and memory, 234. Reflection (of light), illusions connected with, 73, 83. Refraction and optical illusion, 73. Relative, sensation as, 64; attention to magnitude and brightness as, 91; estimate of duration as, 249. Relief, illusory perception of, 75, 96. Representation and presentation, 9, 10, 13, 14, 192. Retrospection. See Memory. Ribot, T., 238, note[114], 290, note[135]. Richter, J.P., 143. Robertson, Professor G.C., 35, note[14]. Romanes, G.J., 105, note[52], 250, note[122]. Rousseau, 280. S. Savage, dream theory of, 128; idea of nature of, 225. Scherner, C.A., 140, 149. Schopenhauer, A., 145, 342. Schroeder, H., 85. Science, philosophy and, 8, 36, 285, 344; conception of the material world in physical, 36, 343, 346, 347; and common cognition, 338, 357. Scott, Sir W., 116, 125. Secondary qualities, 36, 344. Selection, process of, in perception, 95; in dreams, 174; in memory, 257, 263. Self, confusion of, in dreams, 163; introspective knowledge of, 192; self-deception, 200; identity of, 241, 282, 285; confusion of present and past, 267, 284; disturbances in recognition of, 287, 289; momentary confusions of, 295; confusion of present and future, 305. Self-esteem, illusion of, 315; origin of, 319; utility of, 342. Self-preservation, 320. Sensation, element in perception, 20; discrimination and classification of, 21; interpretation of, 22; inattention to, 39, 87; modified by central reaction, 39, 87, 89, 91; confusion of novel, 40; indistinct, 41; misinterpretation of, 44; relation of, to stimulus, 46, 50; limits to discrimination of, 52; after-impression, 55; subjective, 59, 62, 107, 143; localization of, 59. Sensibility, limits of, 50; variations of, 64. Sensualism, philosophic, 348. Shadow, cast, 77. Shakespeare, 3. Sight, mode of perception, 19, 33, 34, 48, 49; local discrimination in, 52; single vision, 54; localization of impression in, 60; in sleep, 139; images of, in sleep, 150, 154. Single, vision, 54; touch, 72. Sleep, mystery of, 127; physiology of, 131. Sleight of hand. See Conjuror. Smell, as mode of perception, 34, note[14]; localization of impression in, 60; subjective sensations of, 108; in sleep, 141; and taste, 171. Solidity, illusory perception of, 75, 96. Space, representation of, 207. Specific energy of nerves, 58. Spectra, ocular, etc. See Subjective sensation. Spencer, Herbert, 32, note[12], 128, note[69], 323, 340. Spinoza, 143, 184. Spiritualist séances, 103, 107, 123, 265. Stereoscope, 75. Stewart, Dugald, 172, 306. Stimulus, qualitative relation of, to sensations, 46, 58, 67; quantitative relation of, to sensation, 50, 64; after-effect of, 55; prolonged action of, 56; subjective or internal, 62; exceptional relation of, to organ, 70; action of, in sleep, 135, 139, 143; in hypnotic condition, 186. Strümpell, L., 144, 147, note[89]. Subjective, experience, 26, 27, 137, 214; movement, 51, 57; sensation, 59, 62, 107, 113, 121, 143. Suggestion, by external circumstances, 30, 44, 89, 91, 267; verbal, 30, 106, 188, 215, 268, 301, 310. Symbol, dream as, 129, 149. Sympathy, basis of knowledge, 223; and illusion of insight, 223; and illusion of memory, 277; and momentary illusion, 293. T. Taine, H., 60, note[29], 108, note[54],117, note[59], 137, 298, note[137], 356, note[158]. Taste, æsthetic. See Æsthetic intuition. Taste, localization of impression in, 60; subjective sensations of, 63; variations in sensibility, 68; activity of, in sleep, 141; and smell, 171. Temperament, a factor in sense-illusion, 101; in dreams, 137; in illusory belief, 325; in illusion generally, 334, note[149]. Temperature, sense of, 65. Tennyson, A., 226. Testa, A.J., 131. Testimony, of consciousness, 205; fallacies of, 265; to identity, 267. Thaumatrope, 56. Theatre, illusion of the, 104, 222; self-deception of the actor, 200. Thompson, Professor S.P., 51, note[17]. Thought, in relation to belief, 326. Time, retrospective idea of, 239, 246, 250; constant error in estimate of, 245; subjective estimate of, 249; contemporaneous estimate of, 250; sense of, in insanity, 290; prospective estimate of, 303. Touch, as form of perception, 33, 34, 49; local discrimination in, 52; subjective sensations of, 62; variations in sensibility of, 65; in sleep, 141. Transformation, in perception, 94; of images in dreams, 163; in memory, 262, 267; in expectation, 305. Trick. See Conjuror. Tuke, Dr., 110. Tylor, E.B., 128, note[69]. U. Unconscious, inference, 22, 68, 269, 335, note[150]; mental activity, 133, 235; impressions, 41, 152. Useful. See Beneficial. V. Vanity. See Self-esteem. Venn, J., 299, note[139]. Ventriloquism, 82. Verification, of sense-impression, 38, 351; of self-inspection, 210; of memory, 291. Verisimilitude, in art, 80, 88; in theatrical representation, 104; in dreams, 168. Vierordt, 245. Vision. See Sight. Visions, 1, 110; dreams regarded as, 128, 131. Vital sense. See Cœnæsthesis. Voice, internal, 119, 194; activity of, in dreams, 155. Volition, and perception, 95; absence of, during sleep, 137,172; co-operation of, in correction, of illusion, 352. Volkelt, J., 172. W. Weber, E.H., 43. Weinhold, Professor, 186. Wetness, perception of, 53. Wheatstone, Sir C, 75. Wheel of life, 56. Will. See Volition. Wordsworth, W., 281. World, our estimate of, 323, 326, 327; scientific conception of material, 8, 36, 343, 344; reality of external, 344-346, 349, 353, 355, 360. Wundt, Professor, W. 13, note[2], 31, note[11], 32, note[12], 58, note[27], 67, note[34], 75, 93, note[47], 118, note[63], 136, note[77], 139, 143, 177, 246, 247, note[119], 251, 252, 254.

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · A history of the distinction is given by Brierre de Boismont, in his work On Illusions (translated by R. T. Hulme, 1859). He says that ArnolNote 2 · This fact has been fully recognized by writers on the pathology of the subject; for example, Griesinger, Mental Pathology and Therapeutics (Note 3 · This impulse to fill in visual elements not actually present is strikingly illustrated in people's difficulty in recognizing the gap in the Note 5 · I adopt this distinction from Dr. J. Hughlings Jackson. See his articles, "On Affections of Speech from Diseases of the Brain," in Brain, NoNote 7 · See Wundt, Physiologische Psychologie, p. 723.Note 8 · For a confirmation of the view adopted in the text, see Professor Bain, The Senses and the Intellect, Part II. ch. i. sec. 8; Herbert SpenceNote 10 · Touch gives much by way of interpretation only when an individual object, for example a man's hat, is recognized by aid of this sense alone,Note 1 · Die Schein-Bewegungen, von Professor Dr. J.I. Hoppe (1879); cf. an ingenious article on "Optical Illusions of Motion," by Professor SilvanusNote 2 · Physiologische Optik, p. 316.Note 4 · An ingenious writer, M. Binet, has tried to prove that the fusion of homogeneous sensations, having little difference of local colour, is anNote 6 · The perception of lustre as a single quality seems to illustrate a like error. There is good reason to suppose that this impression arises tNote 7 · The conditions of the production of these double images have been accurately determined by Helmholtz, who shows that the coalescence of imprNote 8 · These illusions are, of course, due in part to inattention, since close critical scrutiny is often sufficient to dispel them. They are also Note 10 · See Helmholtz, Physiologische Optik, p. 603. Helmholtz's explanation is criticised by Dr. Hoppe, in the work already referred to (sec. vii),Note 11 · I do not need here to go into the question whether, as Johannes Müller assumed, this is an original attribute of nerve-structure, or whetherNote 13 · The illusory character of this simple mode of perception is seen best, perhaps, in the curious habit into which we fall of referring a sensaNote 14 · Quoted by G.H. Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind, third series, p. 335. These illusions are supposed to involve an excitation of the nerve-fiNote 15 · It is brought out by Griesinger (loc. cit.) and the other writers on the pathology of illusion already quoted, that in the case of subjectivNote 16 · For a fuller account of these pathological disturbances of sensibility, see Griesinger; also Dr. A. Mayer, Die Sinnestäuschungen.Note 17 · Helmholtz, op. cit., p. 600, et seq. These facts seem to point to the conclusion that at least some of the feelings by which we know that weNote 18 · Wundt (Physiologische Psychologie, p. 653) would exclude from illusions all those errors of sense-perception which have their foundation in Note 19 · Quoted by G.H. Lewes, loc. cit., p. 257.Note 2 · The perception of magnitude is closely connected with that of distance, and is similarly apt to take an illusory form. I need only refer to Note 3 · Painters are well aware that the colours at the red end of the spectrum are apt to appear as advancing, while those of the violet end are knNote 4 · Helmholtz tells us (Populäre wissenschaftliche Vorträge, 3tes Heft, p. 64) that even in a stereoscopic arrangement the presence of a wrong cNote 8 · Helmholtz remarks (op. cit., p. 628) that the difficulty of seeing the convex cast as concave is probably due to the presence of the cast shNote 10 · See, on this point, some excellent remarks by G.H. Lewes, Problems of Life and Mind, third series, vol. ii. p. 275.Note 1 · I refer to the experiments made by Exner, Wundt, and others, in determining the time elapsing between the giving of a signal to a person andNote 6 · In a finished painting of any size this preparation is hardly necessary. In these cases, in spite of the great deviations from truth in pictNote 8 · Mental Physiology, fourth edit., p. 158.Note 10 · Mentioned by Dr. Carpenter (Mental Physiology, p. 207), where other curious examples are to be found.Note 11 · See Annales Médico-Psychologiques, tom. vi. p. 168, etc.; tom. vii. p. 1, etc.Note 12 · I have already touched on the resonance of a sense-impression when the stimulus has ceased to act (see p. 55). The remarks in the text hold Note 13 · That subjective sensation may become the starting-point in complete hallucination is shown in a curious instance given by Lazarus, and quoteNote 14 · For an account of Mr. Galton's researches, see Mind, No. xix. Compare, however, Professor Bain's judicious observations on these results in Note 16 · Griesinger remarks that the forms of the hallucinations of the insane rarely depend on sense-disturbances alone. Though these are often the Note 17 · Wundt (Physiologische Psychologie, p. 652) tells us of an insane woodman who saw logs of wood on all hands in front of the real objects.Note 18 · It is stated by Baillarger (Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Médicine, tom. xii. p. 273, etc.) that while visual hallucinations are more freNote 19 · See Baillarger, Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Médicine, tom. xii. p. 273, et seq.Note 20 · See Baillarger, Annales Médico-Psychologiques, tom. vi. p. 168 et seq.; also tom. xii. p. 273, et seq. Compare Griesinger, op. cit. In a curNote 21 · This is well brought out by Dr. J. Hughlings Jackson, in the papers in Brain, already referred to.Note 1 · See E.B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, ch. xi.; cf. Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology, ch. x.Note 3 · For a fuller account of the reaction of dreams on waking consciousness, see Paul Radestock, Schlaf und Traum. The subject is touched on lateNote 4 · For an account of the latest physiological hypotheses as to the proximate cause of sleep, see Radestock, op. cit., appendix.Note 5 · Plutarch, Locke, and others give instances of people who never dreamt. Lessing asserted of himself that he never knew what it was to dream.Note 7 · For a very full, fair, and thoughtful discussion of this whole question, see Radestock, op. cit., ch. iv.Note 9 · See Wundt, Physiologische Psychologie, pp. 188-191.Note 14 · Das Leben des Traumes, p. 369. Other instances are related by Beattie and Abercrombie.Note 17 · A very clear and full account of these organic sensations, or common sensations, has recently appeared from the pen of A. Horwicz in the VieNote 20 · It is this fact which justifies writers in assigning a prognostic character to dreams.Note 21 · A part of the apparent exaggeration in our dream-experiences may be retrospective, and due to the effect of the impression of wonder which tNote 22 · Cf. Radestock, op. cit., pp. 131, 132.Note 24 · Even the "unconscious impressions" of waking hours, that is to say, those impressions which are so fugitive as to leave no psychical trace bNote 26 · See Maury, loc. cit., p. 146.Note 29 · On the nature of this impulse, as illustrated in waking and in sleep, see the article by Delbœuf, "Le Sommeil et les Rêves," in the Revue PhNote 33 · For Spinoza's experience, given in his own words, see Mr. F. Pollock's Spinoza, p. 57; cf. what Wundt says on his experience, PhysiologischeNote 34 · See an interesting account of "Recent Researches on Hypnotism," by G. Stanley Hall, in Mind, January, 1881.Note 3 · So far as any mental state, though originating in a fusion of elements, is now unanalyzable by the best effort of attention, we must of courNote 3 · The illusory nature of much of this emotional interpretation of music has been ably exposed by Mr. Gurney. (See The Power of Sound, p. 345, Note 1 · Errors of memory have sometimes been called "fallacies," as, for example, by Dr. Carpenter (Human Physiology, ch. x.). While preferring the Note 3 · The relation of memory to recognition is very well discussed by M. Delbœuf, in connection with a definition of memory given by Descartes. (SNote 4 · A very interesting account of the most recent physiological theory of memory is to be found in a series of articles, bearing the title, "La Note 9 · Wundt refers these errors to variations in the state of preadjustment of the attention to impressions and representations, according as theyNote 12 · See an interesting paper on "Consciousness of Time," by Mr. G. J. Romanes, in Mind (July, 1878).Note 14 · Cf. Hartley, Observations on Man, Part I. ch. iii. sec. 4 (fifth edit., p. 391).Note 15 · See Dr. Carpenter's Mental Physiology, fourth edit, p. 456.Note 21 · This source of error has not escaped the notice of autobiographers themselves. See the remarks of Goethe in the opening passages of his WahrNote 22 · One wonders whether those persons who, in consequence of an injury to their brain, periodically pass from a normal into an abnormal conditioNote 23 · The reader will remark that this condition of clear intellectual consciousness, namely, a certain degree of similarity and continuity of chaNote 25 · On these disturbances of memory and self-recognition in insanity, see Griesinger, op. cit., pp. 49-51; also Ribot, "Des Désordres Généraux dNote 2 · For an account of the difference of mechanism in memory and expectation, see Taine, De l'Intelligence, 2ième partie, livre premier, ch. ii. Note 3 · J.S. Mill distinguishes expectation as a radically distinct mode of belief from memory, but does not bring out the contrast with respect to Note 4 · For some good remarks on the logical aspects of future events as matters of fact, see Mr. Venn's Logic of Chance, ch. x.Note 11 · For a description of each of these extremes of boundless gaiety and utter despondency, see Griesinger, op. cit., Bk. III. ch. i. and ii. TheNote 3 · I say "usually," because, as we have seen, there may sometimes be a permanent and even an inherited predisposition to active illusion in theNote 4 · See what was said on the nature of passive illusions of sense (pp. 44, 68, 70, etc.) The logical character of illusion might be brought out Note 7 · For an excellent account of the distinction between the scientific and the philosophic point of view, see Mr. Shadworth Hodgson's PhilosophyNote 8 · I hold, in spite of Berkeley's endeavours to reconcile his position with that of common sense, that the popular view does at least tend in tNote 12 · M. Taine frankly teaches that what is commonly called accurate perception is a "true hallucination" (De l'Intelligence, 2ième partie, Livre Note 13 · It only seems to do so, apart from philosophic assumptions, in certain cases where experience testifies to a uniform untrustworthiness of th
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