This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ix influence op surrounding objects on the apparent direction of A line Edmund B. Delabarre The fact that, in looking at objects about us, we recognize at once with a high degree of accuracy the relative directions of the lines limiting and crossing their surfaces, seems to most persons to need no explanation. When I have said to friends who have no very profound knowledge of psychology that I was trying to determine what it is that makes us see the lines of objects as inclined in a particular direction, they have not infrequently replied, "Why, of course we do; we see them so because they are so." This is the natural feeling: there is no problem there; we are pretty sensible creatures on the whole, and if we have eyes to see with, of course we can see things as they really are. Still, there is no psychologist who accepts the matter quite so simply. Things are one fact, and are outside us; our consciousness is another, apart from them. Even to such idealists as believe there is really nothing other-than-ourselves, this statement represents a scientifically expressed truth, and the relation of knowing which exists between what we call objects and what we call self is one demanding explanation. The things do not in any way leave their position outside and actually enter into consciousness, nor does the latter spread out and enfold them. Rather, the things act physically, either directly or through intermediate physical forces, on sense-organs, and these on nerves, and these in turn o...
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