Thus The Same Object May Supply A

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.

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

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.

Psychology Is The Science Of The Act Of Experiencing, And Deals With The Whole System Of Such Acts As They Make Up Mental Life.

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.