Acquaintance, a growth and active achieve-
Action, and will, of central importance, 3,4;
in fixing habit, 92; may not safely yield
place to insights or feeling, 128; born of
will, reveals man, 145; Höffding on, 145;
Stanley Hall on, 145; impulse to, funda-
mental, 146 ff; natural terminus of every
experience, 149 ff; neutral organism a
machine for (James), 150; muscular sys-
tem organized for, 150 ff; Professor Hall
on, 150 ff; mind organized for, 153 ff;
James on, 153; even necessary for
thought and feeling, 154 ff; central
importance of, shown in influence of
practical interests, 161 ff; enormous
place of, in life, 176 ff.
Activities, of mind, reciprocal, 103; Starr
and Sully on harmonious development of,
103, 104; Royce on, 104 ff.
Activity, no, at its best when attention is
centered on self, 192 ff; man created for,
202 ff.
Activity, intellectual, opposed functions of,
24 ff; general forms or types of, 45 ff;
effect of mental, on body, 56 ff; of will
on muscular, 58 ff; bodily, a contributor
to spiritual and religious life, 60, 93, 100
ff; a necessity to bodily health, 65 ff;
need to guard against fatigue in, 70;
psychical effects of, 77 ff; imitative, in
development of self-consciousness, Bald-
win on, 148; need of, for inadequately
trained, 151 ff; Wundt on, expressive,
157; required for growth, 158.
Adolescence. Hall on peculiar power of
active instincts in, 150 ff; Lecky on, 151.
Americans, in need of warning, 76; over-
activity of, 209.
Aristippus, the Cyrenaic, principle of, 182.
Aristotle, on best mental habits, 24.
Arnold, Matthew, on conduct and life, 175.
Art, has power through concrete appeal,
Asceticism, ignoring of the particular, the
common error of, 45; recognized bodily
conditions, 47; failure of, 48; lesson of
natural science concerning, 48 ff; the
true place of, 93 ff; good only as means,
95; Harnack on, 97; Pfleiderer on, 98;
psychological basis for, 99; Paul on the
true, 99; the history of, a protest against
love of ease, 101; Bishop Westcott on,
Association, personal, the greatest means to
happiness, character, and influence, 246
ff; greatest convictions from, 250; James
on power of, 250; Bushnell, Seeley, and
Drummond on, 252; George Eliot on, 252
ff; Münsterberg on, 253; Christ's exam-
ple for, 253 ff; to have value, involves
keeping ourselves at our best, 255.
Atlantic Monthly, referred to, 152.
Atomism, revolt against, 108.
Attention, nerve power the chief factor in,
67 ff; power of, the basis of self-control,
69, 74, 161; Mosso on, 69; opportunity
for will-training in, 90; concentration of,
leads to action, 153 ff; the will in, 159 ff;
requires large circle of interests, 191.
Augustine, referred to, 112; quoted by
Granger on definiteness in thinking,
123 ff.
Baldwin, on unity of mind and body, 63;
on imitative activity, 148; law of dynamo-
genesis, 150; emphasis on imitation, 171;
referred to, 246.
Barnes, referred to, 162.
Barrie, quoted, 27.
Bawden, Professor, summary of "pragma-
tism," 219 ff.
Beard, on brain-fag, 68.
Belief, the normal state, 126.
Berkeley, referred to, 108.
Berlin, university students in 170.
Bible, value in concreteness, 215.
Biedermann, on religion, 38.
Birrell, Augustine, on hurtful intellectual
habits, 124; on Charles Lamb, 233 ff.
Bishop of Exeter, referred to, 43.
Blood, need of well-oxygenated, 64 ff; need
of, for sanity, 65; Starr on, referred to,
65; Corning's experiments in circulation
of, 65; Mosso's emphasis on quality of, 65;
LaGrange's emphasis on, 65; fatigue, a
poisoning of, 65 ff; not the chief factor
in attention, 67; circulation of, looks to
action, 149.
Bodily conditions, basis of true living, 48
ff; not a denial of spiritual life, 50, 53;
effects of feeling on, 55; underlie charac-
ter, 64, 74; in the religious life, 74 ff;
a means of power, Professor Jastrow on,
78.
Bodily functions, dependent on self-control.
85.
Body, the, not evil per se, 94 ff; influenced
by the mind, 78 ff; by joyful emotions,
135 ff; organized for action, 149 ff; looks
to personal association3. 229 ff,
Bowne, referred to, 108.
Brackett, Miss, on rest, 80; on effect of
painful emotion, 136; referred to, 236.
Bradley, referred to, 194.
Brain, psychical states and, 51 ff; James on,
51; effects of feeling on, 56.
Brain-fag, diminishes power of inhibition,
68; Americans peculiarly liable to, 76;
prevents success, 76, 77.
Brierley, on dogma, 229; on sacredness of
Browning, quoted, 29, 102, 184.
Burnham, Dr. W. H., on economic brain
action, 70; on effect of work on nerve-
cells, 71; on the sense perceptions, 71 ff;
referred to, 67.
Bushnell, referred to, 82; on unconscious
influence, 252.
Butler, Bishop, referred to, 141, 154.
Cæsar, referred to, 126.
Call, Miss, referred to, 82, 83.
Carlyle, referred to, 126; Seeley on, 158;
in Sartor Resartus, 167 ff; on work, 201
ff; on character by example, 251.
Chalmers, Dr., sermon on The Expulsive
Power of a New Affection, 190.
Chamberlain, on Mosso, referred to, 67.
Character, paradox in choice of, and life-
work, 31 ff; James on, 32; requires both
self-assertion and self-surrender, Royce
on, 34; not a magical inheritance, 44 ff;
has bodily conditions, 64 ff; has psychical
conditions, I10 ff; in the sphere of the
will, 177 ff; self-control fundamental to,
180 ff; problem of, of fixing attention,
191; objectivity a prime condition of,
192; work a chief means to, 198 ff; inner
life source of, 237 ff; possibility of, im-
plies that each person is an end in him-
self, 239; not to be compelled, 243;
personal association a means to, 246 ff;
persuasion a means to, 247; caught, not
taught, 248.
Christ, the great Person, 192, 254; in
Revelation, 245; built kingdom on ten
men (association) 253 ff; actualizes ideal
conditions for living, 256 ff; his teaching,
257 ff.
Christianity, not two kinds of, 96 ff; Har-
nack on, 97.
Classicism referred to, 222.
Clouston, Dr., on inhibitory power, 70.
Coe, referred to, 67; on modern conception
of religious life, 235.
Coleridge, referred to, 233, 234.
Comparative psychology, 8.
Complexity of life, 3, 5 ff; does not mean
confusion, 5; psychological grounds for,
Compromise, Lecky on, 39 ff.
Concreteness of the real, 210 ff, 220.
Conditions, only through fulfilment of, does
man have power over nature, 39; Lecky's
Map of Life, 39; underlie all great
achievement, 44; only in particulars, 45;
but see Royce, 45 ff; need of pointing
out exact conditions of life, 46 ff:
unity of man, first condition, 46; bodily,
the basis of spiritual life, 48 ff, 64;
bodily, not omnipotent, 79; psychical
necessary, 110 ff; volitional necessary,
144 ff.
Consciousness, preceded by impulse to
action, 147; naturally impulsive, 153;
influence of practical interests in, 161 ff;
all related, 211; fundamental convictions
of, involved in emphasis upon concrete,
228.
Conservation of energy, and psychical
states, 51 ff; James on, 52.
Convictions,
value, 128; practical interests in, 166 ff;
of consciousness involved in concrete,228;
greatest, from personal associations, 250.
Corning, referred to, 65, 67, 72; rules for
increasing nerve power, 82; on brain
exhaustion, 83.
Cowles, Dr., on symptoms of fatigue, 72.
Dawson, interest of child in persons, 231.
Decision, 26; Tomm, and Grizel, 27; Sully
on, 27; Palmer on, 27 ff; should not be
made in weak moment, 141.
Deland, Mrs., referred to, 242.
DeQuincy, referred to, 129.
Descartes, referred to, 125.
Dewey, referred to, 156; application of
teleological principle, 164, 172; on society
in terms of action, 174; genetic method,
219.
Discrimination, and assimilation, 24; of
values in life, 29.
Diffusion, Law of, 55 ff.
Dilthey, on life and the notion, 213; re-
ferred to, 230.
Docility and initiative, Royce on, 33 ff.
Doubt, function of, provisional and tem-
porary, 126.
Dresslar, referred to, 67.
Drudgery, Gannett on, 206 f.
Drummond, referred to, 41; on character
by association, 252.
Dualism, questioned, 53.
Du Bois, Patterson, referred to, 231, 236,
239; on fatherhood, 238; on personal
relations as means to character, 2:3.
Dunn, Martha Baker, quoted, 152.
Duties, significance of, 42 ff.
Duty, the demands of, and bodily interests,
94 ff; Herrmann on, 184.
Dynamogenesis, law of, 150.
Ecce Homo, referred to, 189. 252.
Ecclesiastes, referred to, 169.
Education, valuable for endurance, 12;
tested by number of interests, 13; Sully,
Volkmann, and Royce on, 13; opportuni-
ties for will-training in, 88 ff; danger in,
127; protest needed in interest of whole
man, 227 ff.
Educational counsel of our time, 256.
Elective system, abuse of, 134.
Eliot, George, referred to, on contagion of
ideas, 252 ff.
Elijah, referred to, 202.
Emerson, referred to, 74.
Emotion, paradoxes in, 30; proper control
of, 82, 187 ff; influence of, on body and
mind, 135 ff; bearing of, on volition, 137
ff; danger of sham, 138 ff; healthful, not
manufactured, 139; danger of passive,
141 ff; need of power to withstand strong,
142 ff; James on, 143; Jastrow on, 143;
Höffding on, 144; controlled only
through attention or action, 187; Höff-
ding on control of, 188; Royce on, 188 ff;
Ecce Homo on, 189; Spinoza, and Paul,
as James quotes him, 189 ff; Dr. Chal-
mers, referred to, 190.
Emphases, psychological, current, 171 ff;
on persons and personal relations, 228 ff.
Emphasis, psychological, on complexity of
life, 5 ff; on paradox of life, 22 ff; on
conditions, 39 ff; on central importance
of will and action, 145 ff.
Empirical sciences, Windelband on, 224 f
Encyclopedia Britannica, referred to, 211.
Ends and means, paradox in, 22.
Environment, not the entire, but what claime
attention, makes man, 159.
Erdmann, on man as subject of modern
philosophy, 8; referred to, 9; on parados
in religion, 31; on despotism of Frederick
Essence only ..aning of, teleological,
162 ff.
Everett, against Neitsche, on friendship,
38; referred to, 251.
Exclusiveness, nowhere justified, 16 ft; his-
tory of philosophy against, 18.
Evolution, suggestion of, 146; definite set-
ting forth of theory, 218.
Exercise, bodily, volitional as well as
physical in effects, 59; need of wisdom
in, 66 ff; Corning on, 67; LaGrange,
quoted on, 67; Dr. Gulick on, 75; Her-
bert Spencer on, 75; value of "unneces-
sary," 99.
Experience, meaning of, 9; dependent on
range of interests, 10; action the natural
terminus of, 149 ff.
Experiences, terminate in action, 4; Royce
on sensory, 104 ff; cannot be sought as
ends, 140.
Experimental psychology, Külpe on, 2;
defined, 8; Mosso in, 56; Henle in, 56 f.
Experiments, of Mosso, 56; of Henle. 56 ff:
of Du Bois Reymond, 57; of Dr. Sequin,
57; in New York State Reformatory, 58;
of Corning, on circulation, 65; of Dr.
Hodge on nerve-cells, 71.
Expression, necessary to life. 199.
Faith, physiological effect of, 83; Dr.
George E. Gorham on, 83 ff; implied in
willingness to use powers, 169.
Fatigue, a poisoning of the blood, 65;
effects of, 67 ff; effect of, on nerve con-
ditions, 70 ff; effects of, on perceptions
and activities, 71 ff; Mosso on, 55, 66, 72;
Dr. Cowles on symptoms of, 72; intel-
lectually and morally dangerous, 73.
Fichte, referred to, 147, 172, 251; on voca-
tion, 167; on respect for personality, 245.
Foster, John, on decision of character, 91.
Frederick the Great, referred to, 243.
Freedom, dependent on wide range of inter-
ests, 12; moral, of others, must be
respected, 236 ff.
Fremantle, referred to, 20; quoted, 156.
French enlightenment, referred to, 18.
Friendship, significance of, according to
Ritschl, 37; Everett against Neitsche on,
38; an important psychological motive,
231 ff; many a, hurt by lack of respect,
244.
Gannett, referred to, 43: on drudgery,
206 ff.
"Genius and old-fogyism," 25.
Goethe, referred to, 94, 195, 245; Carlyle's
recognition of, 158; on theme of the
world's history, 169.
Gorham, Dr. George E., on physiological
effects of faith, 83 ff.
Granger, Augustine, quoted by, 123 ff; St.
Teresa, on sham graces, 139; quoted,
244 ff.
Granville, Dr. J. M., on surplus nervous
energy, 70; on nerve power as the force
of life, 79; on brain work and worry, 83;
on work, 203.
Growth, physical conditions of, 64 ff;
psychical conditions of, 110 ff; in charac-
ter, two theories of, 194 ff.
Gulick, on exercise, 75.
Habit, physical basis of, 61, 87; time-limit
in, 61, 86; James or 62, 85 ff; phe-
nomena of, illustrate unity of body and
mind, 85; significance o. for mental life,
86; in education, 88; J s' maxims on,
90 ff; fixed by action alon: 92.
Habits, intellectual, as helps, 113 ff; as
hindrances, 124 ff; of study, dangers in,
Hale, Edward Everett, referred to, 81.
Hall, G. Stanley, on muscle-habits and will,
59; on physical culture in will training,
95; on danger in study of philosophy,
124 on need of living out theories, 129;
on abuse of elective system, 134; on will
and action, 145; on the body for action,
150 ff.
Hamilton, referred to, 19.
Happiness, bodily conditions of, 48 ff;
psychical conditions of, 110 ff; in exer-
cise of will, 178 ff; in endurance of hard-
ship, Walter Wellman on, 178; Wundt
and Lotze on, 178, 179, 180; self-control
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