. Lectures on the elementary psychology of feeling and attention. other and makingup the wonderful kaleidoscope of the inner life. ^^There is no question that images pass through alarge number of degrees of clearness — certainlymany more than four — in their passage frommaximal to minimal attention; the question is,however, whether they show all these degreeswithin a single consciousness. Angell seems to accept Baldwins view in thisstrict interpretation. ^The field of conscious-ness, he says, is apparentlylike the visual field. Thereis always a central point ofwhich we are momentarilymore vivi
. Lectures on the elementary psychology of feeling and attention. other and makingup the wonderful kaleidoscope of the inner life. ^^There is no question that images pass through alarge number of degrees of clearness — certainlymany more than four — in their passage frommaximal to minimal attention; the question is,however, whether they show all these degreeswithin a single consciousness. Angell seems to accept Baldwins view in thisstrict interpretation. ^The field of conscious-ness, he says, is apparentlylike the visual field. Thereis always a central point ofwhich we are momentarilymore vividly conscious thanof anything else. Fadinggradually away from this point into vaguer and vaguer ^ig. 5. Area ^Conscious- consciousness* is a margin ^^^^- ~~ ^- ^* Baldwin, ^ Handbook of Psychology:of objects, or ideas, of which Senses and Intellect, 1890, we are aware in a sort of mental indirect vision. ^^ Baldwins diagram is printed in illustration. Kiilpe takes the opposite standpoint. He be-gins his article on The Problem of Attention by * Italics 222 THE LAWS OF ATTENTION: I contrasting physiological with psychological clear-ness. ^[As I sit] looking at the flowered patternof the paper on the wall in front of me, ... Inotice that around the spot of clearest vision thepattern loses in clearness, at first slowly, thenmore and more quickly, until I reach the limit ofmy field of vision, and cannot make out any pat-tern whatsoever. If I did not know that thewhole wall is covered with the same paper, Ishould suppose that the paper-hanger had chosenless and less pronounced patterns, the farther hemoved from the point upon which my eyes arefixed, until finally all pattern and colour were lostin an indifferent gray. I must interject herethat I cannot, personally, verify the details ofthis observation; I think that Kulpe has readinto the wall-paper a good deal of his own know-ledge of sense-psychology. But, at any rate,he refers the observation itself to physiology,and do
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