 The preliminary state is that of abstraction produced by fixed gaze upon some unexciting and empty thing (for poverty of object engenders abstraction) and this abstraction is the logical premise of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more...  Belgravia - Page 611879Full view - About this book
 | James John Garth Wilkinson - Physiology - 1851 - 536 pages
...is the logical premise of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more abstract, narrower and narrower ; it tends to unity, and afterwards to...Any sensation that appeals, is met by this brilliant atten- . tion, and receives its diamond glare, being perceived with a force of leisure of which our... | |
 | James John Garth Wilkinson - Anatomy - 1851 - 542 pages
...is the logical premise of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more abstract, narrower and narrower; it tends to unity, and afterwards to...away to nothing. What happens ? Any sensation that appmls, is met by this brilliant attention, and receives its diamond glare, being perceived with a... | |
 | James Braid - Psychology - 1852 - 146 pages
...is the logical premise of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more abstract, narrower and narrower ; it tends to unity, and afterwards to...then, the patient is, at the summit of attention, witli no object left, — a mere statue of attention, — a listening, expectant life, — a perfectly... | |
 | Robert Garner - Medicine - 1855 - 354 pages
...is the logical premise of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more abstract, narrower and narrower, it tends to unity and afterwards to...attention, — a listening expectant life, — a perfectly undisturbed faculty, dreaming of a lessening and lessening mathematical point, the end of his mind... | |
 | James John Garth Wilkinson - Human physiology - 1860 - 422 pages
...is the logical premise of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more abstract, narrower and narrower ; it tends to unity, and afterwards to...mathematical point ; the end of his mind sharpened awuy to nothing. What happens ? Any sensation that appeals, is met by this brilliant attention, and... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 786 pages
...is the logical premiss of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more abstract, narrower and narrower ; it tends to unity and afterwards to...attention, a listening, expectant life ; a perfectly tiudistracted faculty, dreaming of a lessening and lessening mathematical point : the end of his mind... | |
 | American periodicals - 1880 - 784 pages
...afterwards to nullity. There, then, the patient is, ft the summit of attention, with no object l.-ft, a mere statue of attention, a listening, expectant life ; a perfectly undistracted faculty, dreaming °fa lessening and lessening mathematical point : the end of hie mind sharpened away to. nothing. What... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Psychology - 1883 - 848 pages
...is the logical premise of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more abstract, narrower and narrower ; it tends to unity, and afterwards to...undistracted faculty, dreaming of a lessening and lessening rtlathematical point ; the end of his mind sharpened away to nothing. What happens ? Any sensation... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 632 pages
...is the logical premise of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more abstract, narrower and narrower ; it tends to unity and afterwards to...that appeals is met by this brilliant attention, and relieves its diamond glare ; being perceived with a force of leisure of which our distracted life affords... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - Psychology - 1884 - 1102 pages
...is the logical premise of what follows. Abstraction tends to become more and more abstract, narrower and narrower ; it tends to unity and afterwards to...undistracted faculty dreaming of a lessening and lessening mathe5 end of his mind sharpened away to nothing. ' ) ,,,ns? Any sensation that appeals is met by this... | |
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