[678] Children show conscious self-illusion very clearly when they play something like this: “Now I am playing that I am papa and have shot a lion,” etc.
[679] Note, however, the rhythmic action of attention, which frequently admits of “coming to” at relatively regular intervals.
[680] Lipps’s dritten Aesthetischen Litteraturbericht (p. 480) seems to me to state the problem clearly, but does not contribute to its solution.
[681] Lange has treated of the contrary case where Nature is regarded as a work of art. I do not think, however, that it has the significance that belongs to the conversion of appearance into reality.
[682] “À la vue d’un objet expressif,” says Jouffroy, “qui me jette dans un état sympathique de soi-même désagréable, il y a en moi un plaisir qui résulte de ce que je suis dans cet état.”—Op. cit., 270.
[683] Raumästhetik, p. 6.
[684] Cf. Baldwin, Social and Ethical Interpretations, p. 146.
[685] Baldwin, op. cit., p. 141.
[686] K. A. Schmid, Geschichte der Erziehung, vol. iv, p. 282.
[687] Colozza’s book on play contains in its second part, Il guoco nella storia della pedagogia, a good historical review of this subject.