Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and disease / by August Forel ; authorised translation from the second German edition by Herbert Austin Aikins.
- Auguste Forel
- Date:
- 1907
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and disease / by August Forel ; authorised translation from the second German edition by Herbert Austin Aikins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![from a sweet taste. The whole external world ap- pears to us in qualitative differences. Directly, i.e., psychologically, no quality can be reduced to an- other, not even where this can be done with precision indirectly, i.e., scientifically. For example, psycho- logically, or directly, we can never transform warmth into force {i.e., the sensation of warmth into the sensation of movement), though physically we can transform warmth into force or force into warmth with great precision. So again, psychologically, we can never analyse the sensation of white into the sen- sations of its constituent colours, though physically we can analyse the colour easily enough by means of a prism. h. Time, or the relations of succession between phenomena. c. Space, or the relations of standing beside each other of different simultaneous phenomena. Everything that we recognise at all, within us or without us, appears to us in relations of qualitative difference, or time, or space. 2. The Sphere of Feeling. As you became con- scious of the tickling in your nose and the necessity for getting up, you experienced displeasure. This is called feeling.^ In psychology it is much more difficult to analyse feelings than sensations and per- ceptions. They exhibit no space-relations, fill us in- ternally in a very general way, follow each other slowly and indefinitely, and display but few qualita- >[0r emotion, something very different from a feeling of touch.—Tr.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174143_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
