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9. Waxing and waning of sound
10. Complexity; Discord and Harmony
II. Clearness, or purity
12. Quality (Intellectual, or Discriminative)
13. Direction
14. Distance
15. Articulate form
3. Conditions of perfect vision
(1.) A sufficiency of light.
(2.) Formation of the image on the retina
(3.) Minute size of ultimate divisions of retina
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4. Adaptation of the eye to vision at different distances
The change not dependent on external muscles.
Action of the ciliary muscle
Movements of the iris
The alteration of the eye-ball is for near distances
5 Of Binocular Vision:-Wheatstone's experiments
6. Erect vision from inverted images
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14. Motion-spectacle of moving objects.
15. Visible movements enter into intellectual imagery
16. Sensations of distance from the eye
17. Form, outline, apparent magnitude
20. Permanent imagery of forms
Emotional effect of largeness ;-the sublime.
OF THE REFLEX ACTIONS.
3. Enumeration of automatic, or reflex actions .
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4. Reflex action generated in the operation of the senses
Dr. Carpenter's view of sensori-motor excitement.
OF THE PRIMITIVE COMBINED MOVEMENTS.
5. Interest of the inquiry into primitive arrangements
6. The locomotive rhythm
Proofs of the instinctive origin of this combination ib.
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8. Also an alternate movement of corresponding limbs
9. Lastly, a vermicular propagation of movement
10. Associated or consensual movements
Associated actions of the two eyes
11. Law of harmony of state of the muscular system
12. One sense instinctively acting for another
OF THE INSTINCTIVE PLAY OF EMOTION.
14. Sir Charles Bell on the movements of the face 15. Muscles of the face concerned in expression
13. Movements and effects diffused by Emotion.
Müller on 'Movements due to the passions of the
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17. Muscles connected with the movements of the mouth
18. Effects of pleasing and painful emotion on the face
19. Expression may arise from the relaxation of muscles
20. Depressing action of certain emotions.
21. Stimulation of the organs in Astonishment
22. Effects of emotion not muscular; Lachrymal secretion,
23. Causes of Laughter
24. Nature of the movements in laughter
25. Convulsive outburst of grief.
OF THE INSTINCTIVE GERM OF VOLITION.
26. Volition a compound of spontaneity and something else
Müller on the first commencement of voluntary acts
27. Spontaneity alone insufficient to constitute voluntary
power
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Voluntary command of the organs not instinctive.
28. States of feeling impel to some action or other
29. Coincidence of a state of feeling and a suitable action at
first accidental
32. Instinct of self-preservation only an example of volition 298
A process of acquisition connects the two together
30. Spontaneity and the volitional impulse of feeling belong
to all animals .
31. Summary of the theory of volition
38. Sensibility to degrees of vocal tension.
39. The voice an organ of the expression of feeling
3. Acquisition of combined movements
4. Nature of the inward process that brings about con-
tiguous adhesion
5. Conditions that govern the rate of acquisition
(1.) The command already acquired over the organs
(2.) The force of adhesiveness natural to the con-
stitution
(3.) Repetition, or continuance
(4.) Concentration of mental or nervous energy
(5) Bodily strength
(6.) The spontaneous activity of the system
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FEELINGS OF MOVEMENT.
6. Transition from the actual to the ideal
What is the seat of feeling persisting after the fact?
7. The persistence of states of feeling is their intellectual
8. This persistence had to be assumed in previous dis-
9. Mode in which a persisting state of feeling actuates the
brain
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10. Seat of revived impressions the same as that of the
originals
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11. Case of sensations
Proofs of this doctrine
12. Emotions and passions
13. Revivability of the collateral effects of emotional states
Less enduring states of mind sustained by their
accompaniments
14. The diseased persistency of impressions
Objection to the stimulus of terror
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19. Association of sensations of the same sense with one
another.
20. Effect of repetition on individual sensations
21. Sensations of Touch
Supplanting tendency of the voice
The ear has to be formed to individual sounds .
Successions of sounds,-a musical ear
23. Sensations of Sight
Distinguishing peculiarities of the eye
Impressions of Light and Colour