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Compare the striking instance of this moment as given by Froebel, in his Autobiography, in connection with his idea of the Kindergarten. Quoted by Arréat, Mémoire et Imagination, p. 118. Cf. the well-known doctrine of Empedocles. P. Souriau, Théorie de l'invention, pp. 6-7. Is imagination, so often called "a capricious faculty," subject to some law?
The tension of those mutually antagonistic impulses which make balance, and so unity, and so the conditions for loss of sense of self, clears the way for tasting the full savor of pleasure in bright color, flowing line, exquisite tone-sequence, moving thought. Many a commonplace experience, says M. Souriau, suddenly takes on a charm when seen in the arrested aesthetic vision.
The Sistine Madonna would not strike so deep in feeling were it less crystalline in its unity, less trance-like in its repose, and so less enchanting in its suggestion. <1> P. Souriau, La Suggestion en l'Art. So it is not only the man of achievement who sees but one thing at a time. To enter intensely into any ideal experience means to be blind to all others.
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