The Mental Act Of Sensation Which Issues

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 Interval Between A Cold Expectation And A Warm Desire May Be Filled By Expectations Of Varying Degrees Of Warmth Or By Desires Of Varying Degrees Of Coldness.

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.

The Thing Of Which The Act Of Perception Is The Perception Is Experienced As Something Not Mental.

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.