The Human Mind: A Text-book of Psychology, Volume 2

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D. Appleton, 1892 - Psychology
 

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Page 113 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they feel that they themselves must do if in his situation.
Page 358 - pleasure is a reflex of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion of a power of whose energy we are conscious ; pain is a reflex of the overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power.

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