A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins.

  • Mary Whiton Calkins
Date:
1910
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Credit: A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blues and purples of nature. He looks off upon wide land¬ scapes, and “ Beneath is spread like a green sea The waveless plain of Lombardy.” He looks downward, from his boat, and sees “ . . . the deep’s untrampled floor With green and purple sea-weeds strown. ” lie looks outward to far horizons and “ Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon’s transparent might.” He does not see the “ legion’d rooks ” who “ hail ” the rising sun as black, but compares “ — their plumes of purple grain Starr’d with drops of golden rain ” to clouds “ fleck’d with fire and azure.” Even his gardens are full of “ tender blue bells,” of “flowers azure, black, and streak’d with gold,” and of “broad flag-flowers, purple prank’d with white.” The most common type of concrete imagination probably is the visual, for, in spite of individual differences, most people can imagine objects in some vague outline and in some dull color. Every sculptor, painter, or architect who sees his vision before he embodies it has visual imagination. The inventor also ‘sees’ his engine or his dynamo in all its parts and con¬ nections, before he enters upon the actual construction of it; and the well-dressed woman sees the end from the beginning, the completed gown within the shapeless fabric. Above all, visual imagination is the endowment of the geometer and of the scientist. The one imagines the projections and inter¬ sections of lines and planes; the other beholds the planets
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