[292] Die Erziehung der Töchter, wie solche Herr von Fénelon, Erzbischoff von Cambray beschrieben, aus dem Französischen übersetzt. Lübeck, 1740, p. 36.
[293] Für wirklich halten: It is recommended by the authorities of Baldwin’s Dictionary of Philosophy that the term “semblance” be used as the equivalent of the German “Schein?” or illusion—that which is “taken for real”—in this field of the æsthetic and play functions.—Ed.
[294] See A. Oelzelt-Nevin, Ueber Phantasie-Vorstellungen. Graz, 1889, p. 42.
[295] It may often be observed that the child’s eyes lose their convergence as their interest is absorbed—a means of detachment from surrounding reality. Even in half-grown children the power of detachment is much greater than in adults. The great modern poets are at a disadvantage in that their appeal is to an audience whose power of imagination is on the wane. It was otherwise with less cultured people when, first, the adults were less literal and, second, the poets themselves less intellectualized.
[296] See Baldwin’s Handbook of Psychology, vol. i, p. 227.
[297] That some temperaments play with dreams of an unhappy future there is no doubt. We shall encounter such phenomena later in noticing enjoyment of pain.
[298] Games of chance which keep the participants long in suspense are among the special forms of adult play which make use of such picturing of the future.
[299] Even the serious Lucca Signorelli was not ashamed to place two clouds, which, showing distinct faces, back of the Christ in his Crucifixion.
[300] See in this connection the more thorough treatment in the section on inner imitation.
[301] Strümpell, Psychologische Pädagogik, p. 364.