INDEX
��232; effectiveness of, propor tional to immediateness of re sponse, 232-233; art of, char acterized by lack of openness and straightforwardness, 233- 234; sharp differentiation be tween persuasion and, 234- 235; warning to preachers re garding, 235 ; collective, in mobs, 242-244.
Superhuman influences, domi nance of, over people living in conditions of natural environ ment, 341-342.
Teachers, supreme significance of sentiments and ideals to, 109-110.
Technical terms, divergence of mental systems in their theo retical meanings to an extent overcome by, 55-56.
Terrors, popular, as examples of mental epidemics, 267.
Theological thinking, influence of modern philosophical think ing felt by, 371.
Theology, attitude of business type of mind toward, 332-334.
Theoretical meaning and its re lation to the functional, 45~47-
Thinking, defined, 34; the psy chology of, 35 ff. ; the func tion of, to guide the organism in its adjustment to the en vironment, 212.
Titchener, E. B., "Text-book of Psychology," quoted, _ 88; quoted on form of conscious ness, 166; cited on scope of attention, 177.
Traube-Hering wave, the, 181.
Tulip craze in Holland, example of popular mania, 266-267.
��Uncultured population, condition favourable to mental epidemic created by, 272-273.
Understanding, problem of, re sulting from differentiation of
��mental systems, 56-58; double character of problem, 58.
Unemployment, evils of, 315.
Unitarian revolt, reasons for the, 369.
Unity, psychical, in an accidental concourse, 236-238; lack of, in street preacher s audiences, 238; of the inspirational gath ering, 239-2^0; three stages of mental, in inspirational gath erings, 240-244.
Universe, effect of scientific in quiry on modern conception of, 355-357; confusion in the modern mind as to relation of God to the, 358-359.
Unpleasantness, distinction be tween pain and, 69-70; cause of, by some experiences, and of pleasantness by Others, 75- 79-
��Vegetable life, mode of respon siveness characterizing, 187- 188; psychical life wanting in, 189.
Versatility and shallowness, danger of development of combination, in ministers, 292- 293-
Virtues at the basis of success ful business, 329-330.
Vital assurance, one of the three classes of belief, 152, 153-154.
Vital processes, correlation of, in the organism, 76; connec tion of, with pleasant and un pleasant states of conscious ness, 77-79.
Vividness of recalled experience, law of, 24.
Volition, close relation of atten tion to, 169-170.
Voluntary action, meaning of, 186 ; fundamental truths neces sary to conception of, 186 ff. ; viewed as that which is di rected toward a consciously conceived or imaged end,
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