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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 SECOND. ATTENTION. 9. Attention expresses the immediate direction of the mind to a subject. The distinctness of our notions, the correctness of our judgments, and the improvement of all our intellectual powers, depend, in a great degree, on the habitual exercise of this act. Its surprising influence, in improving the perceptive powers, is manifest in persons, who have been led, by their peculiar callings, or by necessity, to place uncommon reliance on a particular sense. Thus sailors, who are accustomed to look at distant objects, acquire the power of seeing and distinguishing things, which, by reason of their distance, are invisible to common eyes. Musicians become capable of discerning the minutest difference in sounds. Cooks and epicures acquire an uncommon sensibility in tasting and smelling; and blind persons improve the sense of feeling to such a degree, as to make it, in some measure, supply the want of sight. These effects are produced chiefly by an increased and habitual attention, whichenables those persons to notice impressions, which are so slight and languid, as wholly to escape the observation of others. A seafaring life, especially when early commenced, has a tendency to produce some physical change in the organ of vision. 10. Attention is considered a voluntary act of the mind, but it is not at all times equally subject to our command, and in young children is wholly involuntary. Extraordinary occurrences, which awaken curiosity, and things, which interest us in a high degree, by exciting some violent passion or emotion, often draw the attention so strongly, that we are unable for a time to transfer it to any other subject. So intensely are we sometimes engaged, that we lose our account of time, and take no notice of the objects, which strik...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217470568
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 238
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217470564
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 431 gr


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