Apperception : a monograph on psychology and pedagogy / by Karl Lange ; translated ... by ... members of the Herbart Club ; edited by Charles De Garmo.

  • Lange, Karl, 1849- Über Apperzeption. English
Date:
1893
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    first led only by an obscure feeling, a premonition. They do not yet know what tbese words signify. What should these two strangers have to do with Ibycus; — they, the rough men, with the cultured poet? How does it happen they speak of his cranes? Such and similar thoughts prevent the immediate comprehension of the unusual words. Hence the poet with his psychological tact allows a few moments to pass, before the hearers understand. At first the flock of passing cranes claim the senses of the observers. Theu the words about the Cranes of Ibycus are carried — even if very soon— in wide circles to the lowest seats, and awaken anew the old song. And now the excited multitude breaks out in queries and suspicions: “ Ibycus, whom we bemoan? The man slain by the hand of a murderer? What ails this man? What can he mean? What is the meaning of this flight of cranes?”1 Numerous ideas are now called up by the new perception and placed in relation to it. All the thoughts are collected, tliat is, those which can serve to give significance and exten- sion to the perception. And in fact, of all the ideas called to consciousness, two groups soon appear that are able to contribute to an understanding of the obscure fact of the observation. They are, first, vivid ideas of the ruthless murder of the poet, united with feelings of deep sorrow and moral indignation, accompauied by the desire to find the murderer, and the resolution to attend to every suspi- cious circumstance. Awakened from its light slumber by the name of the murdered man, this group of ideas breaks forth with new power and lends the attentive will a special en- 1 ®er 3I»)fu§, beit mir beweinen ? SDeti eine 9JtörberI)anb crjdflug 1 9Ba§ ift’ä mit bem, ma§ tarnt er meinen ? itüais ift’ö mit biejem ßranicöaug ? — Schiller.