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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE LOWER SENSES. 1. The Chemical Sensibility of the Skin. Our main concern in the present work will be with the two higher and specially aesthetic senses, those of Sight and Hearing. But it will assist us greatly in comprehending the phenomena of these if we first glance briefly at the lower senses of Taste and Smell, as well as at the inter- ' mediate one of Touch. We shall thus bridge over the gulf which intervenes between the purely organic pleasures and pains, and those of the aesthetic class, which might other- wise appear too wide a gap for a single leap. Moreover, as I sensations of Taste and Smell, in their ideal form, enter ' considerably into the structure of Poetry, the highest of the; Aesthetic arts, it will be necessary to examine them shortly here in the actuality, in order that we may afterwards account for their pleasurable or painful nature in the representation. And it will accordingly be desirable, first, to look a little at the general sensibility of the body which underlies all these special forms, and of which they are only highly-differentiated varieties. The reader must remember throughout that we have to deal with these various senses chiefly from the point of view of pleasure and pain, and are not at all concerned with the purely intellectual problem of discrimination, which occupies the whole attention in most treatises on the senses, whether physiological or psychological. He must therefore be prepared to find many familiar facts omitted, and many comparatively slight manifestations brought into prominence, according as they do or do not bear upon the purely emotional question. -iThere are five ways in which external agencies can affect the body. The first is by mechan...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217530194 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217530192 |
| Weight | 0.49 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 144 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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