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"Arousal" Quotes from Famous Books

... conditions necessary to the arousal of an impression of rhythm are three in number: (a) Recurrence; (b) ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... time elapses for this article to attain publication in America, it is in all ways probable that the laboratories and lecture-rooms of the United States will also be giving full evidence of this contagious arousal of interest over a discovery so strange that its importance cannot yet be measured, its utility be even prophesied, or its ultimate effect upon long-established scientific beliefs be even ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various

... latter, visual sensations take their place—we do not image what we can see. In sculpture, the greater part of the imagery is of touch and motion—in the imagination, we feel the surfaces and move with the represented motions; the whiteness or blackness of the materials prevents the arousal of the image of the color of the body. In painting, besides the temperature images already mentioned, there are touch images—in still-life, for example, when silks and furs are represented; images of odors, in flower pieces; of motion, in pictures which depict motion, as in the racing horses of ...

— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker