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to
man,
CAMBRIDGE,
MASSACHUSETTS
1904
be
may
now
be
reduced
to
most
serviceable,
in common, for all the sciences and for ethics, sociology, and
religion.
This
task
regions of
in
ways
it
must
of
the
world's
wisdom
is
incline
to these
spirit and
that this
the
dead
chrysalis
of
some
historic
the technical
than
those
to
is
no
longer
meaning of life is
maturity is hardened
 
hearts
mysticism,
either
blossom that has not
attained.
of
mathematics,
ethics,
and
for
any
ready,
chief
commission
for
having
tion. If it is true that unification
has
be
for
constructive
rather
than
for
historical
as
of procedure; and judgment
regarding
certain elementary conceptions which the author deems
fundamental, and a clear grasp of which he considers a prelimi-
nary
these
we
sis,
for
laying
seem empty
vacant space there may yet be
present
some
sort
whole
and
every
solid atoms which whorl
universally
extending
5.
men
to
all respects
just as
they seem
deceived
some
;

length, breadth,
and depth
dimensions
that
as to
motion. Matter
is no such thing
to
point
out
that
same
time
in
philosophical
matters
a
competent
into
it
all. Why
Cartesians,
202.)
was not
turned the tide.
of resentment
it
fifty years Huygens'
 
that
ticles,
 
Void
Theory
had
beginning
in
two
exceptionally brief, is
most
it
ficiently plain how,
 
how it could and
that
namely,
same homogeneous fluid
In other
rotating portion
it,
ended
this
complete
establishment
of
the
speak
of direct-action-at-a-distance
such
distance-
feeling
that
there
final result
the
a
sense
rudimentary,
ideas
which
the older theory of
Hving
Vortex-atom
irresistible
They
that
specifi-
cations
now
yet
there
to which
we must
however, to
unification of knowledge which its
natural developments
realize its increased
among
physicists,
years, are not
an expression of the con-
ceptions now
transmit motion
is probable
show itself in the
ways it leads other
the
requirements
of
same paths,
becomes frankly
impossible unless
be regarded
as a
a
specifications
made
out the
into
a
smaller
compass
superfluous
adjective
when
applied
rigidity.
description
plenum,
does
it
positive
one?
Namely,
it
resisted
matter has
been defined
before been
And
when
properties,
and
the
lawfulness
observed
in
its
occupy
of
our
attention
to
the
natural
development
and the
sidered
a
river
space through
flowing water. It
phenomenon,
or
then breaking
an
unknown
pres-
because just
be
of all
here.
26.
formed
in
cog-
that
can
be
review
be
framed
from
one
memory chart
were
the
offspring
of
be most likely
to drift through
as
has
yet
come
straight-
always have
motions that
that all motions
 
the
deductions
he
makes
 
calculus,
and
quarter-
nions
be
applied
in
description, whose
himself
as
free,
centrif-
ugal
thrust
and
incompressible
physics, where
if we conceive
forward in a
historic fact that
in
contemplation
of
the
teristics
of
physics,
when
called in question,
impressive facts
physics,
crucial
problems,
mature
and our
illumination
for
psychol-
ogy
and
at
point of this conjunction no informed man can doubt. When,
therefore,
should
be
clear
to
every
one
to
the
subject, there is
is
are mental pictures
same manner
as the
colors that
pictures,
and
that, therefore,
percep-
tions
are
illusory
as
all
and of
psychology, therefore,
Huygens,
Faraday,
Maxwell,
be the
more furthered
by so
history
its intention
to cover
but a
because of
discovered
that
he
for
shape as the
Spencer
has
shown
how
this
 
 
 
 
with  the human
37.
Not
only
were vague in
ulties were
will be
remembered, had
part,
is that organism
Such teleology
it
inevitably
would
In short,
it is
that
he
still
his
The senses are
and just
as a
of
all
things
and
the
mover
of
similar
ideas and those of other souls and of the deity,
uncontaminatedly
of
matter.
system
all those ever contrived, the most logically
perfect within its
and of psychol-
be
called
principles
what,
under
close
inspection,
time more
the
ability
their ethereal
doubtful) when
foreign
out his
The
Thinker
bottom,
mind of
higher
included
motion;
and
the
realization
of
organic
activity.
His
higher and
of experience
 
 
continuum
simple
truth
is,
science
idealism
that
v^rhen
still, v^^as
the pictorial
theoretical
spaciousness
he
ceived
those
competent
with
nature
to
beget
the
as
often
did
who
problem of
the deceitfulness
nostrum, that divine
security. It was
chiefly interesting
teaching
as
a
whole,
the
general
nous,
to form the Divine
a union
with the
Highest, there
the fulness
joyment
while
mine.
nearly
summed
up
as
follows
first
to
Scepti-
Roman
Period,
was
to
remain
till
same sort
church
au-
thority
during
the
this
effort.
Wherever
it
did
go
rected toward the will and its
choice between Paradise
the greatest scholars; and
period, and through incom-
attract the scho-
 
of
Aristotle's
influence.
Already
into
of mere
soul
be-
completely disappeared. Scarcely
dividual genius, will
by
and
ships
could
be
built
that
would
forecasting
of
mediaeval
be
this
as
stream,
and
theory
first
three
powers
of
ten,
wholly
to
vanish
for
many
centuries.
49.
be
sufficiently
completed
by
a
learned
the epoch-making Descartes; of
technical language
of his
Period is
we
of
Aristotle.
Already
we
various
commen-
he sometimes uses the
properties
might
most
especially
small
the human
part the
.
.
rational
comprehends
several
with
relation
to
far not,
kind, though
yet
in
the
cruited by
so
perception is
drop of water
cases no
Bacon are,
in
two
vital
concerned
how
lively
totelian
modifications
of Lord Bacon.
our subject
impulse
him.
Thus
saw men conceiving a common substance for all things; for
demons
or
Thus came in
it he
epoch was
primitive
conceived other-
for example, at times,
previous to
large
class
with
laud-
able
aversion
to
of
historical
and
critical
Introduction
has
and
phi-
losophy.
He
by
the
bend all
vowed a pil-
Pie
made
the
journey,
following the
the assumption upon
kind
having
been
unmistakably,
of
best,
having
of Plato
general.
55.
mind and
made of them
in his argu-
 
shall
eventually
the same being
declared
that
to
pantheistic
or the
subsequent his-
that
other be con-
ceived a unit. The notion even at that date was not a
new
one,
was
He
helped
Idealism
by
intuitive;
precursor of
move,
never getting sight
extension
to the alternative
of space
but
chronicles
the
power
us.
had little to offer
sciously
he opposes
and
antiquity
were,
then
in
sleep
the
mind
would
cease
to
of all
men, or
criticism
further
than
that he
in the senses,
their
6i. George Berkeley (Ireland,
have observed that
own
appar-
missed this,
 
cessarily,
in
be
true
of
object known as
of
hypothesis is useless
assume the existence of
with
know or to
belief that
in
the
history
of
civilization,
appeared
a
only wonder is,
the
same
there
is
no
stage,
were
then
sition
of
Nominalism
was
our
an important
ordered them.
of
their
development,
monads
is
funda-
mentally
this
Idealism. His
actualized
mind
save in degree.
a
single
mind
an
and that
be a
certain outer
parts may
not be
world, that it
externally
or
internally?
Leibnitz,
foreseeing
the
universe,
emphatically
answers
any part of the
part of the
particular soul  in
form, nor
to
exist
at
as
problem is
 
It was
old
spatial
characteristics
that
are
of
cosmology,
in-
fluence
uniqueness
School. In a
 
1
So
some
of
his
greatest
students
God;
their
 potency
comes
from
guiles of
and even
follows
Berkeley, and as Descartes did not see, that the whole
spatial
picture
the outer world of
Kant.
Scarcely
can
he
be
cited
manent
entity
or
substance,
rises
through
perceptions,
their
fainter
com-
bined,
by
Hume
three
for
example,
that
constitute
they are copies of
resemble
puff. Men
ber, as
and
in his
that percepts
his reduc-
did
there is no
accept
his
clearly,
it
seems
easier
to
conclude
believed
;
strik-
ing
life,
that
school, that
frightened
after, in
be
saved
only
him
mathematics
and
geometry;
 
pictures fills the
individual
of
continuous
particulars, thus
merely man-
ufactured according
to a
for
receiving
the
any least particular
total
of
distinguishing
only for a
upon
a
definite
principle
for
himself into the
produced any particular conception
produced no particular
one rather
than any
with the
logical
functions
or
cate-
sensations
be
and
certain
four-footed
animal.
having
a
mountain
road
Kant started
it
to
final
exemplification:
of
which
we
ophers
honor, and crowd-
ing him to the blush, no student can now deny that Kant started
out to
amazingly
experiences
sense-elements
shall
mind
for
their
specific
moulding
and
is
the vast
bulk of
their details
up to
lawfulness,
must remain until
Kant,
we
have
here
equally dogmatic and
range, of consistency, and
mind. I have
Dis-
turbed at the discovery that the image is not the sun,
to
succeeded in
claims
to
conceive
that
it
day;
to
conceive
that
it
would
take
him
into
the
major
realm
of
knowledge
at
all.
These
last
nomenology,
and
as
such
should have
be
suc-
cessful
and
throughout.
92.
viewed
but
individual
have
both
seems possible that the
psychology,
more
his reversal of that
philosophy cannot be
so we
vast
and
of
answering
of all this
nature.
intimately and
saw,
was
an
abstract
process
than
was
ever
done
before
unfolding
principle,
he
laid
over-passionate
en-
deavor
that
made
of fashion.
things
 the
ulars
addi-
tion,
by
first writing, had
remains
to
be
said
interpreted
as
formerly
it
same
scientific
simulation
than
nigh
forgotten
notions
of
polarity
just
then
self-limitation;
in
the
resistance
of
evolution
intellectual philosophy,
is
;
functional
meaning.
have sensory content;
but if, at
phenomenon.
along
the
iiifluences
most
the Middle Ages,
Divinely Determined. While
to
the
 
 
remains
to
be
noted
Evolution
which
we
filled
the
into
art,
Just
as
coupled, the famous
 
of
where, it must
notion
that
knowledge
consists
in
weakly prostituted
them to
one of the deepest
 
still
a
is
puffs of
Idea or
scientific
adequacy
it
writings he
Logic as the
to
pleading
captivating
vidual
self-consciousness
or
perception,
legal
beginnings),
con-
sciousness
are
treated
as
only
to
record
famous divines
and
the
himself
as God taught them, in that
form,
so
I
; and I must
meaning
of
the
same
truths
Marx's
many
zealous
disciples.
and inner
his
career,
German
IdeaHsm
appeared
to
dominate
the
entire
domain
of
philosophic
interest.
distin-
To-day it
has, in
ance is chiefly
 
to
build
clash
in
bitterest
oppo-
sition.
plunging, in
Schelling, now
toward
it
imperfection
in
the
sanctified
in
exegesis
France. It includes
dominant philosophic influence
only in the
logic, and that the latter betrayed
tendencies
as
well
subversive
former.
to
destructive
of
religion
natural that quasi disciples
that
deduced sense-perception,
be  an ontological
Atonement,
Spencer and Darwin;
of
and
stem
of
with
those
lines
while
the
through
Herbart
to
the
epoch
of
Psychology.
This is true,
not so much
cessors, and
in
his
Third, because
only
under
Schellingian
in
that
he
applied
this
Schopenhauer's
distinguish-
and
divorcing Will from
phenomenal nature was man-
Ideas. But
tation
it
is
forever
of pres-
scho-
 
had separate
in
will
become
plain
if
stress,
pervading
centre,
the iron toward the magnet, the plant to growth, and the
man to
with
the
proposition
of
emphasize
further
on.
119.
This essence may
the
influence
of
any
other,
it
to do
of
certain
123.
The
were something
to
itself, each
single
char-
acteristic:
i.e.,
must
be
important schools of the
toric
height
on
our
more
nearly
than
and
day. But above
It is
philosophy

far as to
sense
that
distinctive principle of
incited
by
led
an
complex. Next,
from
influences
within
themselves,
act modifies their
own activities,
efforts, or
scholastic egg
whence particulars
work
they must be
gone
before,
and
by
union
of
moment
we
may
day or hour, and that
which
we
a study
when Transcendentalism and
In the way
the path of Herbart, Beneke, and
 
full meaning
is to
winian Theory and its far-reaching significance for every phase
of his problem
he
understood
above
declared for universal
the same
the other atoms, and
throughout
the
famous
chapter
we suppose that of
same
and
as
where
it
exercises
its
order
of
the
world
conception
of
space
is
valid
for
his
central
notion
are
the
course
and
gradationless
relation.
that vital
the one on those
expression
We
can
action directly
extension
can
produce
the
phenomena
itself
as
nothing else than an
in
things.
The
place
occu-
pied
of
at which
in the intellectual
order there corresponds
then, inter-
preted by
Lotze to
of
our
sorts
of
activities
are
the vain hope that at a higher
stage
of
most
similar
of followers.
But if
do
full
justice
142.
brain and
it is not to
the
quietly
excites the
Being
lets
itself
be
stimulated
by
organism.
Infinite,
each
; it goes forth
144.
 
it
perhaps
to
inter-
taken for
the only
reality? Most
we
signify
well-
spring
is
that
sively outshines
source, progress,
and end
of all
general
devel-
main philosophic problems
new,
science
and
world of
the
ultimateness
 
ended
by
pro-
ducing
endeavors
to
appear
at
once
for an
and of
psychology and
and
scholastic
faculties
of
modern
times.
certainly
was
not
regarded
must
be
carefully
mate residua
When
this
to be
order of reciprocal
resulting from
explained
it
also
by
internal
or
sufficiently
emphasized
the
significance
found
nearer
to
this
it
our
knowledge. In
Professor Wundt
final picture
final picture
 
specially
to
his
philosophic
remains and
tone
science, on the
covering that its
processes and laws
yellows, and
sounds,
their
respective
causal
rela-
of that
existence or
being. In
short, to
all these
itself. That is to say,
each feeling
opposite
ways
with
the directiveness of the will, and any such directive feel-
ing in
short,
in
general,
range
from
instances of
crowd
infinitely
varied
Others
we
call
or less
are deduced the
sational content
itself; though
mention.
How,
partly
by
the
do
first,
feelings
are
not
group
is
separated
off
and
between
the
subjective
inner
self
of the
Wundt draws
the
mind.
The
latter
in
the
mind
we
157.
(i)
Source
and
Validity
of
Knowledge.
The
methods
no
longer
lays
down
any
fundamental pos-
of
its
that is
affirms consistently in
matter. But as to what he
conceives is so
its
physical
laws;
that,
in
terms
of
causal
 
nach Abstraction
von jeder
that
be
Professor Wundt's
in
a
this
activity
is
Physical Causation and
our future
task to
results,
soul or
processes may
world of
to
its
most
modern
will, and
have,
save
delusively,
that
same
every human
or choice,
of
portion
to
doctrine
165.
(9)
Evolution.
Here
Professor
and
but
little
known
to
seeking
to
bring
becomes
representative
of
Joining
this
to
the
a
continuum
development,
from
the
maximum
units
of
physics
former
display
corresponding
grades
of
mental
that is not
When, now, we
physics,
all
of will
potency through every
stage of Nature,
spontaneous and ever-meddling
atom,
Professor Wundt has
sort
soul;
but
these
phenomena,
unified,
are
the
sense or
sense that
of outer space
Professor
Wundt's
far as
it is
appearance high
unifying,
and
value
from
both
ical
atoms
as
the human
of
relative
the
exacting
empiricism
in
Introduction.
176.
(20)
Religion.
According
to
Professor
Wundt,
no
attempt
may
be
Here he
Naturalistic Unfolding of
described as
relaxation
philosophy may be
mentioned
free of everything
always been observed.
in
that
it
sharpened definition,
upon those
gained
the
most
178.
several problems throughout
main pages
of history
development of
their
in verity they
invention,
together
the sense
outer world
it precisely as
of
it
form
of
general
conceptions
that
recognized,
of
to
itself as has been the advance of philosophy
in
general
to
the
same
standpoint.
In
of
179.
Similarly,
as
the
discovery
that
made
shown
others did
momen-
no
in
to
of
one of the
very few ventured
this
revolutionary
and,
drifted into unthinking
a flat contradiction
has been asserted
importance
unmistakably
presages,
stopped
our
foregoing
Review
That it is
to grow to
to
be
con-
writings,
to
to
reduce
;
the reduction of all
qualities
are
so
as
fundamentally
sort
of
qualities
under given
conditions of
organ, with
an
intrinsic
trait of all or even of any mental content. And while,
in
itself,
proposition
in
the
through
its
symbols,
contrary
in
had them, in
little
his
obscurities,
Kant's
world

Recalling
requirement of unchangeableness for all true reality, it is easy
to
understand
how
similar causal office within
ideas, quite as Locke
their master
vital
period
of
Transcendentalism.
Nor,
when
Herbart
Ab-
straction,
was
he
of
the
darkest
problems
among most of the active
leaders of our
accepted
hypothesis
attribute,
at the present
necessarily
and
through
the
very
nature
of their phenomena
we
lawfulness
of
and
Professor
Wundt,
have
felt
constrained
to
regarding the
The whole
 
 
these feel-
ings, again
and certain
chronoscope
clockwork
by
of its
the
lowliest
and
them,
through
early
teachings
as
to
the
nature
and
origin
of
sin
and
sorrow.
Nothing
could
the
notion
in addition
to God,
as a
of nature have
of the
of choice is
choice-act
and
do
exist;
directly
from
1
This
spiritual
or
philosophy
by
this
universe, save
problems
of
the power
itself. And nothing
end of this
even by the profoundest minds.
Thus
we
have
from
John
Locke
the
famous
definition,
quoted
at
lowed.
both
losophy.
not the substance
 
to
useful
symbols
In philosophy and
entitative, facultative, logical, critical, transcendental,
ethical,
table effect of rarifying
save
It banishes
the old,
ceptions
would
be
upset
with
set of
we
see
that
men
precisely
the
same
vaguely, up
to the
century.
Then
to advance
from the
smile or
his frown,
psychological
logical details
incongruous
with
them,
and
even
demanded as
dominoes, in
for inventing
uninquisitive
minimum
of
concreteness,
some
of
nature's
facts
that
it
And,
indeed,
the
aboriginal
purpose of
un-
but run to
must keep up with
the
wall.
verse of
and, prob-
is inevitably
it cannot
mental
content;
the
same
sort
of philosophic
as well
to
sharp
determination
is
surveys, so,
in
the
cul-
minating
light
of
of quality,
for
our
our Treatise.
its derivation
for our
present subject.
were, conceived
upon this ;
and recalling
of our
prevalence
the day
still held them
prop-
erties
of
his
ordinary
probably
;
were
and
conceptions
to
might
be
thus
abridged
the World Soul
dimension, and their
the
qualities are above
reduced the
be
English
school
 
subterranean
mind
but
fostered and intensified this regard in
the glow
of religious
passion. And even after Berkeley, Hume, and Kant had made
the
conception
as the
upon the old.
but our
explanatory
concep-
tualists
of those who have made use of our qualities in
their systems
When, then, the
played,
covertly
and
despisedly,
be
dragged
to
the
light
beginning
to
demonstrate,
both
in science and
ups
and
downs
reduced to
of
reducing-
the
con-
of
long
ere
this,
qualities
ever
coercive
grounds
for
admitting
such
an
x
at
all,
it
seems
un-
reasonable
above
it should
these culminating
so
uncritically
confused
with
those
of
the
Traits,
next
the
burningly
of
un-
as
plainly
the
transformative
 
it,
according
ultimate
and
such quantity was
essential
had
ever
be
quantity
of
every
sort
 
tial
of suc-
his
System,
 
;
die
Selbsterhaltung
2
could not belong
effects from different
points of space,
left undecided
relations of
the
other,
from
such
extended
exposition
System.
as
we
have
is shown
sharply in
are
 
absolutely,
any
theory
requires
us
to
believe
mere
and
to
a
judgment
of
the
amount
directly
and
for ex-
other percep-
spatial ones,
stored
infinity
psychologists recognize
doubt
that
or
by
different
planets,
or
from
from
other
text-books,
tradition is
chiefly quoted, i. e.
rise
to
 
rise,
as,
In
contrary,
issue
and
our
of
epistomology
has
been
a
more
seems
seems less prominent,
seems
muscle in the
and every
the original
about space that
receive
no
other
name
than
the
outer
world,
make
voluminousness
an
 
tangled-up
discussion
have
word when applied
spread-out-ness
in
a
sharply
themselves
and
ab-
of
three
grades
or
classes:
those
nor
extended;
inner
which
its
determinations
naive tradition nor in
of
outer
which we have seen all science and all philosophy steadily
advancing.
Such
non-spatial,
spatial
would yet
would likely prove
Coupling
it
we are
product of
extent
theoretical.
209.
as
we
hope,
this
crude quantity
apprehended,
quantity
proportionally
we
consist,
ultimately,
permanent substance
and for
or other
of unchangeable
small
regarded
as
dis-
underlying
all
the
phantasmal
philosophic opinion
opinion
con-
temporaneously
at
of the role that
quite indefinitely prescribed
the
indefinite whether they
altogether.
Already
we
tion,
formation
Were
this
assumption
legitimate
or
correct,
tone
examples
would
not
still
playing
are in
of the
total
of
this
at
any
number
reality
which have
of one's
forbid
any
we
215.
to
understanding what
we
again
pare
(i),
(2),
and
(3).
at all
that
came
in
both
(2)
and
(3),
in
so
far
as
each
one
quality
or
assumed
in (
i
we
may
now
perceive
that
thought
to
Going
back
to
say with
attribute, or of
Yet
if
it
be
re-
called
that
it
justice to
bestow
conservation of
sum
qualitative
content
he
his
endeavor,
simplest possible things in:
being
different
from
quantity
is
precisely
similar
perception
us perceptions of their unlikeness to each other and to
the original
quantity,
imaginable; for
several
matters
History have,
perhaps, never
precisely the same
inclined
to
reply
that,
sense
be
lines
most
partial fields
by
the
following chapter.
changes also. Any change
that
 
quantity
itself.
Naturally,
be
general
lawfulness
practical
equiv-
alence
substitute is
that
every
quantitative
is also reconcilable
the very
of
accumulated
misconceptions
 
every
considered
the
matter
may
con-
shows it
coercive,
may
be
pointed
of a
following one,
bonds of
 
clearly
By no means, however, does this put beyond
controversy
all
necessarily involve any of them ;
as,
for
imperma-
nence,
determinism
or
indeterminism,
problem
to
philosophy, and what
222.
 do
or
stood
the
as
false
as
this
anthropic
 
stance, it
delu-
transferred
to
the
piston.
one
regarding
entailed monstrous labors of fancy and bungling, and that long
delayed
for the
primitive man
the demons
they
had
the
business
recognized
that
to
in
having
made
this
error
of
hypostasizing
the
faculties
Nor
did
these
faculties
to
endless
or of
absolute
creation
(since
it
is
a
primitive
weakness
of
philosophers
to
be
fascinated
 
was
fetching,
converted
worshipped
the
 
of the
from Thales down, one
to
discover.
224.
and
their
successors
of
Hartley,
Brown,
familiar,
who
have
produced
our
wealth of con-
mind.
 
been resolved
 sensation, perception, conception, judgment,
one general
have thus
own
specific
nature
pro-
Transcenden-
talism,
not
history
this in
other sort of
reopen
of view now
physical
themselves.
of motion,
conceived
for
every
natural develop-
consummated
single,
symbolized
symbols.
Correspondent
whereby
the
enti-
for the
metaphysics
is
named
unentangled
and
in
naked
also proved
exigen-
is
or
apart. And
quite
like
double-entry
physics,
it
theoretically
 
within any given fact or motion alone. Nor is this
half the
other
of
these
fictions every one recognizes. But the time has now come when
it
is
they really are;
commonly
singly
every one would say its lawfulness were of the highest
de-
gree.
In
more
exact
ality.
Philology
tells
us
( in
any
successive similarity. The
But,
of
philosophers
following in
the
edict, and of
228.
recognized
sort
of
relativity.
every
one
fulness is
con-
a special pattern of occurrence
having
an
do
so
philosophy
of it
proportional to
or philosophy
enlargement
the
occur-
rences
of the recur-
school,
which
one or an-
handmaid of
fatality for
of
And
of theology, epis-
following
declaration
from
the act
factual
mental-processes,
Also, it should
is deter-
because it is
that the
to be
the mind
it
in
there
sup-
as
distinction
been thought
spatial
appearance
of
looking phantoms
were as much
 
conceive
that
the
old
One
mind
at
that
hinders
recog-
nition
of the entire content of the mind at any moment to be a
whole,
and
of
all
the
eral family,
First,
Not
only
varied,
but
they
are
grouped
organs
of
smell and of
still
ago.
regarded
still
again
constituted
a
characteristic
separating
these
absolutely
Choosing first
of
presentation
constituting
lation
or
where
great
of
serial
connection
of one quality or of varied qualities,
so the
serial stimulation
as we
Going next
stimulation or changes
hearing are so fixed
skin and retina; and the sort of serial stimulations that
come
oft-repeated
change
per-
mitted
illumine
the
rule,
it
should
affords precisely
as we
lawfully
kindred sort;
tactual spaciousness, musical harmony, composite tastes and
odors,
and
completely
not
generated
in
world
in
235.
Unmistakably
this
brings
fundamental
light,
never
to
deter-
mination
of
the mind
words,
is
at
The
infinite importance of this to the future both of physics
and
of
psychology
lying
quite
unsuspected
perceived
relationship.
distinctive trait
ognized as the essential
trait of presentativeness everywhere.
we get
components
found
sort of togetherness
often indis-
of philosophy
been respon-
by every
sort of
universe
is
singular
is all
be
psychology, and still
to
clear
up
before
symbolized
comprised
of
changing
sensory
to
view.
them in colors as well as
in plain black and white. And, in order
to
terize any
cease and
important
truths
14
motion. And because
of the matter,
mental
perceptions,
which
at
a
of
ordinary
outer
things,
would
vanish
the
mind
to
the problem of
determining the true nature of the outer world of physics cannot
fail
to
be
caught
by
should
turn
certain
that
relationship between them,
 
at
the
true
nature
of
naked
presentativeness,
we
must
accurately
determine
or phases;
to
their
correction,
as
clean
a
preparatory comprehension as is, at the present stage of this
Introduction, possible. And hoping
the main hindrances
different
sense
family, generated
tive
that I shall
find room for
way is
sort
or not. And when
remain there, whatever becomes
reacting
agent,
and
knowledge
comes
under
the
world
mind
is
but
'
case,
since
expressed in any
compound
which
the
of
psychical
act
it
;
con-
sciously
determined.
Intellection
here
a
limit to all our work of analysis. . . . Some sort of Rudi-
mentary
Judgment
is
knowledge of outer
central
point
I
of man's
con-
opposite view of
commonly and
wrongly been
single mental state or
necessarily involve knowing
presentation
or
nature
in
and
of sensory
presentatively.
The
cient
to
press
they are, in general,
pen
we
can
even
less
pen and our
laws of
to remember of
the
kinetoscope
what
may
result.
throw
into
before
produced
thus speak
seem as absurd
as to speak of seeing a concept lying in the
middle
of
one's
the
traditional
 
to
those
Rightly
to
comprehend
modern
matter sharply, when
wherein smells,
into
the
same
presentative
the pen
this
concept?
persons,
and
still
particular
be
be
Or
conceptual
of the
brain
action,
quick
no
scope.
All
would
he saw the pen,
pen
pen
pen
ings
part,
not
mental
processes
at
all,
in
any
picture or
a human
severe sense the
one
stored
general,
or
concept is stored up in his mind at all, but
only
up
as
in
our
its way into the
 
as
a
pen
about
the
brain,
major
rise
general.
250.
mind's
moving-picture
result from so
in
ordinary
perception
it
is
likely
to
be
little
representations in the
traditions
required
to
be,
in the
mind
proper.
But
of our
some
will now say the
mind
at
that pen,
pen, my pen, and
will lump into
sort of creature
perception to
kinetoscopic
picture
must
throughout
a
pen,
more
of
conceiving
there.
Just
what
this
given occasion. It
So,
too,
as
the
conceiving
of
all these
so-called mental
processes of
after
from
nerve,
the
brain,
explained
by
the
to the
;
sense
as
wonderful
save
happening
in
The
validity
of
psychology,
and
our
judgments
of
John
Locke,
the
 
that of Pro-
alike
spec-
or
more
or
may now bring
Presentativeness
transfixed
and
their
to
the
nature
is certain
forms of
represent,
and
which
we,
or through
the
past
development
of
philosophic
and
scientific
these
faculties
and
associations,
in
some
way
a materialistic conception
hung them again,
that it throws
the problem
of knowl-
Wundt
to-day,
failed
entirely
to
observe
of
faculties.
to concrete
qualitative changes,
a
uniting,
apperceiving,
pure
antique
obfuscation,
precisely
like
saying
longer
to
be
tolerated
naked
presentativeness
is
certainly
not extended and may never in itself constitute spatial appear-
ance,
yet
ing
problem in general ways,
advance
Professor Wundt, I have
been
falsely
bestowed
on
some
sort
or
unify-
ing
function
such
mere
change
having
history
ophy
inward.
consider
in
the
following
chapter.
qualities
within
one
shall designate
believe
in
immortality,
Quan-
titatively
they
may
as
the
content
of
mind
of
man
we
know,
the
interstellar
presen-
tative
whole.
Even
are
realm
of
the
human
tions; and,
of
our first
quence, also geometric
of a
man's mind
that shuts
the universe
served of it
nature.
Wundt
Cer-
tain
commonly monopolize one's atten-
note;
and
dary
or
determined
equally
its
hypothetically
conceived
to
part of the brain,
the
similarly
brain's surface. More-
that complete
to
their neural
as
our
new
hypothesis
which appear
are
connected
man's
brain,
and
part
sensory
elements
of
the
mind
are
personality, yet not all
absorbed with
present
holds
showing that the
be, divided into numerous
brain
system
with
functional
conditions,
within
tersely,

accompanying
presentative
presentative
mind and the
has
chapter as
to the
nature of
law in
general. All
reason to
that its
is
a
sub-branch
still.
demarcation
of
personality
or
less
special
might
.well
be
in hunting for the
innumerable other laws,
logic and
of asso-
in
gravity, could be
because they were not there, but
rather because present
logic
processes
of
perception,
conception,
basis
new
purpose.
And
I
shall
do
to
another;
rapidly
gained
in
plausibility.
Not
only
com-
monly
compared
insulations of
an ordinary
the
many
being
more
or
less
example,
be
pressed
to
bearing
on
more conclusively than I
now.
again in
sys-
tem,
and,
sub
and
now broached
come to pass.
ave-
nues
another, it is the marvellous
mutability
farious and evanescent
realm of nature. If mental content and chemical content are
identical, then
unstable in the known
to
be
investigation
constitutes
keenly
studied
by
every
up-to-date
manner,
contrast
exhibited
between
organic
and
inorganic
compoimds
tinction
is
now
generally
recognized
to
the
world's
scientific,
philosophic,
the
less
positive,
nor
in
lead
to
be
resources
indicating
certain
other
lines
of
research
current
physics
is
cerebral chem-
that
constitute
our ner-
Nor will the
bind
their
to
still
lower
to-day, in the
stances
cer-
of
Already
into
the
identity
of sleep
offer exceptional
clearing
away
Because
world
of
physics
beyond
it
can
be
comprised
of
mental
content
and
clings as
ever,
do
not
lie
backward
but
such matters,
limit
in
into a
single instantaneous
explosion of
ever manifests
point
to
which
soundly
we do
all
things
Ludwig declared
that the
of the mind
the
to
self-consciousness
and
any
one
rior
faculties
grace
unity
them
mar-
vellously
variegated
and
elaborately
woven
simpler,
spatial
presentations
of
touch,
non-spatial
stand
related
to
in
my
mental
order or form. At
absolutely
differ-
ent,
a
continuous
segment
in
some
have
same,
whether
we
think
of a  straight line.
in
some
connection of
mental and
There
we
with one
result;
when
in
as smell
brings
to
relation to
personality
formed, and the
speak
rather
personality
is
personality
is
the
able
case
where
the
mind)
and
be
joined

at the
mination that the world is not spatial in the sense
it
was
once
conceived
to
be,
symbolized sense.
left,
even
a
treat
it
scientifically,
sum of
 
in the naive
of quantity than
processes
itself, has
slowly made
;
fluid
the sun
non-spatial content
these lines only theoretically
rather than actually. And
built
up.
For,
turn, made
collectively of the entire
lines,
we
first
must
build
up,
in
detail,
of struc-
personalities
and
and
this
process
a
as a mathematical point
relationship,
one
to
that is
relationships
number
a
manner
involving,
order,
I
shall
of the
identity of
nature
points in
I shall
hereafter define
fully and understandably, that
physics,
of the universe
overlooked;
and
I
do
it is
to be
to be
we
have
learned,
presentatively
all
other
content.
laws
fully
discovered
world at
large will
be as
nature, will
higher
grades,
biological,
ethical,
comprised of
changing mental
such
world may be
fixed spatial
tions
are
to
as the world of traditional physics was not built of
lines
to be
they
may
be
treated
as
if
they
occurred
in
theoretical
an
integral
part
of
this
subject
and
conform-
able
to
these
universal
laws
like.
Just,
how-
because
this
goal
by
approxi-
mate
determinations
ties of
brain.
to be
each
of these realms of scientific inquiry; and thence from the results
so gained will
personality or of
It
has
while
our
nervous
consciousness, abun-
dant evidence
hand, are abundantly
and
paralleled
by
familiarly
im-
mediately
under
one
it
may
be
knowledge
we
same ; that continuity
identity
; that
neural activity, of the
from
them,
mainly
in
inner, spatially pictured
sonality
in
conceived of
otherwise, the unique-
perfect and
specific
result,
are
by
special
is com-
monly said,
to
sonality,
save
to us
relation
to
processes, the presentative
mains.
personality. It
religious developments;
brief remarks.
or science,
still popularly held notion that a
continuance of
personality must
heart
of
this
cur-
rent
core of this dread being located,
a
tenderly
ultimate
of
ics,
and
and ac-
mental content are
the
future
of
physics,
under
the
do
away
with
that govern their
mutations. And so,
that
power
of
imagina-
other
be
to
other
to be
limited to
of
words.
280.
Next,
cosmos
anywhere
that
six ultimate
traits; and
in this
else or
even of
a
contrary
view.
For
 
impossible
here
that
certain
fundamental
qualities
this
resultant
to
account
for
processes.
of conceiving both the
moment of
into the two
rightly understand
the
transfor-
in
a
single
order
of
something
irreducible, cosmic peculiarities.
quibbles,
best profit
by considering
cessful, have
made plain
that in
the
qualities
such
words
as
be
designated
as
to be
observed
momentously
exampled
than
in
the presenta-
compound-
ing
to
now
made
more either
is
tridimen-
broadest
pos-
or
 
whatsoever
or
that
once in
precludes
another
description
practical
of
matter.
Sup-
proceed
to
formulate
the floor into squares, triangles, circles, or other forms of
stated
dimensions;
vidual beans,
charting
event itself. And if the self-transforming
changes
of
thing,
because
while
one
ties,
as well as in
again only
physics
apply
chemical
combinations,
others
certain
pages
of
psychology
smell,
others
others
or
glance
at
numerous and varied as the directions of vision and the
eyes
descriptions
each
fact.
Hence the
thought and
described) in
themselves. Because
be
facts
exigencies
of
science
Because we can think
we
trait
or
traits
partly,
for this task,
to
history.
(which also
already
calloused
foregoing
errors.
uni-
verse
at
large.
The
result
290.
Making
throughout
were even
present hour,
291.
Berkeley
by
theoreti-
cally
eliminating
as
the
Third
remaining Errors
he was
system, result-
ing from
292.
Coming
to
Leibnitz,
we
task was
vastly greater
prehending
the
Fourth
Error.
 
might
otherwise
factual and
he talked
physics, the
other three Errors left as entirely
virgin as in
never constructive. Now
I must point
superbly
transforming
substance
While
perceive
our
conceptions
of
vastly different
is
unified.^
296.
of the
of The Error
even
the
First
of
it
the
was
perfectly
namely,
;
of knowledge grasps
and
also
transformative.
Just
causal
and
facultative
we
mark
progress
in him,
tous deflections
the
one
hand,
so
transitional
for our most
we
content
of
as
the most
powerful for
as
far
off
as
 

processes of
have
traditionally
ment they happen there, and, on the other hand, which
of them
Presentativeness
than
work of Lotze, therefore,
Elements.
Second,
as
still
dwelt
under
the
primi-
sort of entitative
been
of
being
than
that
eliminate
the
outer
world
of
physics,
but
Space
and
Motion
made
of
sort or other
human mind, for
reinterpreting
this
this reinterpretation
opment of
the several
the universe to
set
science,
and
now
imme-
diate
successor
of
such
inspired
may
and
in Professor
an
Quantity.
Then,
his conception of
of
this
historical
of Substance
Substance.
That
is
to
practical
fact
that,
in
Professor
Wundt's
cosmology,
Wherefore,
upon
with
personal
unity
there might
be deduced
yet
and
mystical in the light that history and psychology have thrown on
the origin
would
altogether
contrast
so
be
unity
to
will fail to per-
of our
list remain,
in his
tity
is
hopelessly
befogged
what are
and again,
ment and
on
psy-
chology
as yet too
comprehension
and
utmost
care.
teachings
to
their
latest
bearings.
At
cosmos,
The
and cast
hopelessly
apart.
Yet
speedily
both
peculiar
problems.
With
return
nakedness of our sensory
the
fog
one ;
of
in-
vestigation
brought
face
discoveries ac-
entities, but of
found
to stickle
at the root
of all things,
an4 sesthetics.
fundamental
one,
in
spite
of
the
we
tions and of the
projections
of
brought
about
the
opposition
them.
Our
Error
of
use
for
anything
had been
:
quantitative.
ducible
our
of our
from
both
sciences
for
a
regards
qualities
it
must
heed
not
in
current
psychology,
of
growing recognition, enforced
of
Ladd,
James,
Kiilpe, Wundt, and a horde of others, of the dependence of the
different
degrees
of
organs, upon the
complexity of serial
every-
spatial,
to the
of law-
fulness enabling
motion,
epistomology
con-
fined,
what
sort
what
sort
of
cosmic
whole
we
are correct
solution in terms of one and the same set of
unique,
universal,
first
set
reason that the
part falsely determined.
well
to
conduct
Quantity,
Change,
and
Law.
(b)
The
Recension
of
if traditional
though
which
science
^
any number of others;
also
changes,
absolutely,
conceptual
with
the
tridimensional
and
the
universe,
quite
independently
 
are soon
to be
independently of these
solely,
by
traits,
that
unit
trans-
forms,
in
same from which
every factual
mentioned.
quantities
loosely
figura-
tively,
and now
smaller, and
while
we
may
with exact
personalities
of
any
them, will
they
space.
An
enlargement
of
this
problem
imaginary sphere
most
conveniently
conceive
ac-
_
that
the
mathematical
points
condition,
assumed
physics,
must
be
carefully
borne
then
happen,
quali-
ties
should
transform
still
yet,
other purposes, or
physics may keep an
one's space
imaginary per-
length, for each,
allotted,
like
a
numbered
particular
they
are
all
equal
quantities,
far
short
physics
has
heretofore
recurrence, can scarcely
should date from
turns
to
gray
conceive
our
space-and-time
scheme
symbolizes
a
would
our
original
experiences
are
of
succeed
one
another
our
an-
swer
physical
313.
Next,
chink
exactly
and
follow
four
inner
angles, and
from his
eye to
the four
eral,
in
peculiar complexity
which
concepts
follow
scheme,
account
of
or physical
lines are made up of points, this resolves into the
more
explaining
motion,
commonly say,
317.
But
accomplishment
means
far
as
as the
motions,
or,
explanation lies
explanation
involves
some
the same
another, and
human race.
only imagine
beyond
Only
such
as
assumption. These
case.
And
one
imagine
and
history
to the
present moment.
Since, however, this statement is still likely to seem in the
highest degree ridiculous to
imperative
that
I
devote
still
to
a
and