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of the lieneral class. A simple diagram may serve to give 

 vividness to this contrast ( I-'i-i. 1">). 



The transition from a condition in which special sensa- 

 tion- lill the field of the attention to one in which they have 

 become decidedly a minor matter may lie quite precipitate. 



Well 



Fig. 15. The encroachment of the p-ncral sensations upon the 

 special in transition from health to sickii". 



Consider, for example, the voyairer upon the deck of a 

 steamer. At one moment we see him engrossed by the 

 beauty of the sea and sky, the fn-,hne.-s of the bive/e 

 against his face, and the tingle of the pure air in his 

 nostrils. After a very brief interval he may be found 

 utterly absorbed by one horrible general sensation. 



