 | 1880 - 616 pàgines
...conception, chiefly I believe connected with the motor sense, that men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can...imagination. They can also become painters of the rank of Koyal Academicians. The facts I am now about to relate, are obtained from the returns of 100 adult... | |
 | Francis Galton - 1883 - 422 pàgines
...sense, not of the eyeballs only but of the muscles generally, that men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can...become painters of the rank of Royal Academicians. The facts I am now about to relate are obtained from the returns of 100 adult men, of whom 19 are Fellows... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1883 - 880 pàgines
...does not signify, he tells us, loss of clear memory of details. " Men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can,...give lifelike descriptions of what they have seen." Again: " it is a mistake to suppose that sharp sight is accompanied by clear visual memory." Yet more:... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1883 - 874 pàgines
...does not signify, he tells us, loss of clear memory of details. " Men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can,...give lifelike descriptions of what they have seen." Again: " it is a mistake to suppose that sharp sight is accompanied by clear visual memory." Yet more:... | |
 | 1883 - 1186 pàgines
...does not signify, he tells us, loss of clear memory of details. " Men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can, nevertheless, give lifelike descriptions of what the}' have seen." Again: "it is a mistake to suppose that sharp sight is accompanied by clear visual... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 726 pàgines
...sense, not of the eyeballs only but of the muscles generally, that men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can...imagination. They can also become painters of the ranJt of Royal Academicians.* . . . * fl am myself a good draughtsman, and have a very lively interest... | |
 | William James - 1908 - 722 pàgines
...only but of the muscles generally, that men who declare themselves entirely déficient in the pouter of seeing mental pictures can nevertheless give lifelike...become painters of the rank of Royal Academicians* . . . * [I am myself a good draughtsman, and have a very lively interest in pictures, statues, architecture... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1891 - 182 pàgines
...sense, not of the eyeballs only, but of the muscles generally, that men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can...become painters of the rank of Royal Academicians."— Galton, 'Inquiries into Human Faculty,' p. 88. Cf. James's • Psychology,' Chap. XVIII. become a paradox... | |
 | William James - 1902 - 728 pàgines
...themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can nevertheless give lift-like descriptions of what they have seen, and can otherwise...They can also become painters of the rank of Royal Academiciam* . . . * [I am myself a good draughtsman, and have a very lively interest in pictures,... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Olmstead Stanton - 1903 - 1396 pàgines
...'Inquiries into Human Faculties, Francis Oalton, p. 118. the eyeballs only, but of the muscles generally — that men who declare themselves deficient in the power...miss it through lack of the knowledge of scientific physiognomy, I grieve that the writer has not that light by which to elucidate more clearly the differences... | |
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I believe, connected with the incipient motor sense, not of the eyeballs only but of the muscles generally, that men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can nevertheless give life-like descriptions of what... 
