The Synthesis of Mind; The Method of a Working Psychology

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... The suggestion in the use of the lever in Schema B, is the broken arm, being the absence of objective; it is the absence of equilibrium, or movement. Here is the disturbed of motion; the static of mind The emotions have all the changes and gradations of color. Our vocabulary of them it must be seen would only be limited by our power to distinguish. We may multiply the fragments of the broken arm and write on ad infinitum. of expression, is not to be confounded with surfeit-modesty, for instance. In other ways the logical meaning of terms is to be guarded. The quality of the instrument must in this be considered. The lack of the real mental quality in the sense of high mental organization must not be confounded with that of the inferior or low mental organization. While the emotion of the former might express itself in tears or smiles, the emotion of the latter would probably express itself in the immobile, confused or stolid face. As commonly read, emotion has been considered apart from the quality of the instrument, in its essential interpretation. A mind is subjective per se in proportion as it consciously subjects, relates, co-ordinates, its experiences; in proportion as it is conscious of the way or process of its co-ordination. Such a mind tells you the "reason why" a given conclusion or coordination is so. The highest subjectivity involves the highest objectivity, and vice versa; but the objective mind is relatively subjective in proportion as it magnifies its process toward coordination. Such a mind may so far lose itself, lose its objective; may so far magnify its own experiences and so exaggerate the consciousness of its processes that it falls short of function, that it falls short of full co-ordination, or objective: it becomes static short of ...