Part One: The 'Mental Exercises': On the Pleasures and Uses of the Imagination.
A section from part one of the book "Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London," by Alice Jenkins is presented. It considers the sight as the most perfect of all the human senses and that it serves as the foundation of the greater part of ideas from the imaginatio...
| Published in: | Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London pp. 62 - 69 |
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
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Liverpool University Press 2004 Limited
2008
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| Summary: | A section from part one of the book "Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London," by Alice Jenkins is presented. It considers the sight as the most perfect of all the human senses and that it serves as the foundation of the greater part of ideas from the imagination. Moreover, it believes that a man possessing polite or cultivated imagination has resources of enjoyment because he imbibes the feelings of the poet and he can present himself in situations and with characters described. |
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