APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES ~pperception is thus a general term for all mental processes which a presentation is brought into connection with an eady existent and systematized mental conception, and reby is classified, explained or, in a word, understood; a new scientific phenomenon is explained in the light of ~nomena already analysed artd classified. The whole inligent life of man is, consciously or unconsciously, a process apperception, inasmuch as every act of attentiOn involves the Dercipient process. ;ee Karl Lange, Ueber Apperception (6th ed. revised, Leipzig, 19; trans. E. E. Brown, Boston, 1893); G. F. Stout, Analytic ~chology (London, 1896), bk. ii. ch. viii., and in general textbooks psychology; also PSYCHOLOGY. ~PPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES (17771843), English sportsn and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the ~udonym under which he published his works on the chase S the turf, was born at Plasgronow, near Wrexharn, in Denbighre, in 1777. Between the years 805 and 1820 he devoted nself to fox-hunting. About 1821 he began to contribute to Sporting Magazine, under the pseudonym of Nimrod, a ies of racy articles, which helped to double the circulation the magazine in a year or two. The proprietor, Mr Pittman, )t for Nimrod a stud of hunters, and defrayed all expenses his tours, besides giving him a handsome salary. The death Mr Pittman, however, led to a law-suit with the proprietors the magazine for money advanced, and Apperley, to avoid prisonment, had to take up his residence near Calais (1830), ere he supported himself by his writings. He died in London the 19th of May 1843. The most important of his works are: | |
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