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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER VIII
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Seeing this visual copy he will quickly recognise it, take it to be very easy, dash it off quickly, all under the lead of habit; but his result is poor, because his habit has taken the place of effort.

Once get him to make effort upon it, however, and his will be the best result of all the scholars, perhaps, just because the task calls him out in the line of his favoured function.

The same antithesis comes out in connection with other varieties of sensory scholars.
We may say, therefore, in regard to two of the general aspects of mental types--the relation of the favoured function to attention, on the one hand, and to habit, on the other--that they both find emphatic illustration in the pupil of the visual type.

He is, more than any other sensory pupil, a special case.

His mental processes set decidedly toward vision.


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