Mental Life Is Indeed Practical Through And

Both Expectations And Memories Are More Than Mere Images Founded On Previous Experience.

You Can Mark In Desire The Rising Of The Tide, As The Appetite More And More Invades The Personality, Appealing, As It Does, Not Merely To The Sensory Side Of The Self, But To Its Ideal Components As Well.

Such Being The Nature Of Mental Life, The Business Of Psychology Is Primarily To Describe In Detail The Various Forms Which Attention Or Conation Assumes Upon The Different Levels Of That Life.

The Mental Act Of Sensation Which Issues In Reflex Movement Is So Simple As To Defy Analysis.

When We Come To Images Or Memories Or Thoughts, Speculation, While Always Closely Related To Practice, Is More Explicit, And It Is In Fact Not Immediately Obvious That Such Processes Can Be Described In Any Sense As Practical.