Mental Life Is Indeed Practical Through And

Desire Then Is The Invasion Of The Whole Self By The Wish, Which, As It Invades, Sets Going More And More Of The Psychical Processes; But At The Same Time, So Long As It Remains Desire, Does Not Succeed In Getting Possession Of The Self.

It Is More Difficult To Designate This Form Of Conation On Its Practical Side By A Satisfactory Name.

But Unfortunately Locke Treated Ideas Of Reflection As If They Were Another Class Of Objects Of Contemplation Beside Ideas Of Sensation.

Thus The Same Object May Supply A Practical Perception To One Person And A Speculative One To Another, Or The Same Person May Perceive It Partly Practically And Partly Speculatively.

Hence, In Desiring, The More The Enjoyment Is Delayed, The More Fancy Begins To Weave About The Object Images Of Future Fruition, And To Clothe The Desired Object With Properties Calculated To Inflame The Impulse.