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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    waves, and murmuring leaves of the summer afternoon. Even the minor image-types may be,well developed, as the experiences of many defectives show. Helen Keller, who has been blind and deaf from earliest childhood, so that she can have neither visual nor auditory imagination, none the less imagines with peculiar vividness and detail pressures, movements, and even tastes and smells. A passage from her “ Story of My Life ” illustrates this lively and accurate imagining and may fitly close this chapter: — “ Everything,” she says, “that could hum, or buzz, or sing had a part in my education — noisy-throated frogs, katydids, and crickets held in my hand till they trilled their reedy note. I felt the bursting cotton bolls and fingered their soft fibre and fuzzy seeds . . ., I felt the low soughing of the wind through the corn stalks, the silky rustling of the long leaves, and the indignant snort of my pony ... as we put the bit in his teeth. . . . Ah, me ! How well I remember the spicy, clovery smell of his breath.”
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