Development Helps (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...symbol and the judgment by a collection of symbols; it furnishes a mode of repetition and a link of association, thus aiding memory; it may by the help of memory, rhythm and harmony arouse pleasurable, refining and ennobling emotions and affections. All kinds of expression serve to interpret nature, one's own thoughts and the thoughts of others. One oftentimes has no just estimate of the content of his own thought until he has embodied it in some form of expression. The expression of another also often reveals to one his own thoughts. Eeal expression almost always contains some outcome of individuality. The one expressing produces a material representation of his own understanding, but he adds an indefinable element, even when he does not attempt to be original or creative. Expression reenforces every power and activity of the mind and is in turn reenforced by them. As the child attempts to represent some object of inspection, he continually discovers more and more of its elements. The landscape means more to the artist who has painted it than to anyone else, and all other landscapes mean more to him afterward; thus expression reenforces habit. It affords an outlet for pent-up activities, thus relieving and freshening the mind. It enables one to complete and unify lines of creative-thought by furnishing tangible records of the fragments. It affords a medium of communication between realities. and idealities. Conscious expression discovers to man his inventive and creative power--how he can retrace in miniature the footsteps of his Creator. Unconscious expression as given through feature, movement and attitude measures his influence over his fellows to a greater or less extent and betrays the motive forces that have formed his habits and molded...