Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... V.--VISUAL SPACE DISCRIMINATION In the preceding chapter, in our discussion of the spacial world of touch, we have referred again and again to that inner core filled by the body. We have pointed to the fact that every part of the body during every waking moment is sentiently alive and that it needs hut that we attend to any particular part in order to focus in consciousness an indefinite number of possible motor-complexes directed toward sense contact with the particular part. Indeed, not only is the body, even when we do not give our attention to it, an ever present sentient mass; the consciousness also of mind tension that may find expression in any one or all of an indefinite number of motor-reactions in likewise always with us. The one, when attended to, is a qualitative sense of stimulation, the other a spacial sense of mind tension looking to general sense commerce. In this commerce of the different parts of the body is to be found the inner care of our spacial world. Attention has been called to the fact that while the touch organs are sensitive, for the most part, only in the case of actual contact, nevertheless, touch may in a limited ran