The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein.

  • Waldstein, Louis, 1853-1915.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    select certain shades from them, but must be taught to sort them and to reproduce the various colors with colored pencil or with the brush; such tests would then be the unfailing proof that the impression has been recognized and therefore stored up consciously. I am well aware that in following out the teachings of Froebel this and similar methods are em- ployed in the kindergarten of to-day; I men- tion it now because I should like to have the same training extended to all the senses as well as to the eye; for the power and usefulness of the conscious self is increased by every clear and full impression, if it comes even from the so called lower senses. I have said that the impression upon a sense is the more certain to be a conscious one the higher the sense is developed, from which we may infer that all impressions might be of that order if it were possible to develop every sense to perfection. The sense of smell in man is hardly so developed, and the impressions that take root in his memory are therefore for the most part