The mind at work : a handbook of applied psychology / edited by Geoffrey Rhodes.

Date:
1914
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Credit: The mind at work : a handbook of applied psychology / edited by Geoffrey Rhodes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of what does not exist. One of these is quoted by Carpenter in his ‘ Mental Physiology.’ When the French air-ship ‘La Patrie ’ was blown from her moorings and drifted derelict across England, her passage across the Bristol Channel was witnessed by a number of persons who, in the early morning light, were able to identify her, and naturally assumed that she was being navi- gated across the country. They were not only able to read her name, but persuaded themselves that they could discern two aeronauts on board, and could see them sending out carrier pigeons. “ Again, when the tropical annexe of the Crystal Palace was burnt down, a large concourse of people witnessed the conflagration, attracted by the extraordinary spectacle of the streams of molten glass. It was known that a number of animals, parrots, and monkeys, were kept in that annexe, and were burnt to death. One ape had escaped to the roof, where it clung for a long time unable to escape, and was literally roasted to death before the eyes of the agonized spectators, who were not only witnesses of its contortions, but also heard the poor creature’s screams. After the conflagration it was found that the object which had excited such interest and compassion was a piece of tarpaulin. “ This defect also belongs not only to the senses, but to the intelligence. It frequently