Practical Lessons in Psychology, By William O. Krohn ..
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Then you see the sensRtions of which we are self-conscious depend upon at- tention. I have read of students (I have never met them) so en- grossed in their studies that they would be utterly oblivious of surrounding circumstances, even letting the fire go out and al- lowing their rooms to become freezing cold without knowing it, so interested were they in their lessons. I know a banker who frequently forgets to eat his noon luncheon, he is so interested in the work of his office. "The scholar p...oring over a mutilated passage of ancient manuscript, to the neglect of his appetite, or the naturalist patiently observing the movements of insects or of plants, indifferent to cold and wet," each supplies another (221) 222 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN PSYCHOLOGY. example, illustrating a high power of prolonged concentration. Carpenter tells us of the celebrated Braunschweig mathematician, Gauss, who, w'hile engaged in one of his most profound investi- gations, was interrupted by a servant telling him that his wife (to whom he was most deeply attached, and who was at this time seriously ill) was very much worse.
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