INTRODUCTION.
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| PAGE | |||
| ON THE NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL SCIENCE. | 15 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Nature of the Science. | 15 |
| Section. | II. | —Importance of Mental Science. | 20 |
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE MENTAL POWERS. | 27 | ||
| Section. | I. | —General Analysis. | 29 |
| Section. | II. | —Analysis of Intellectual Powers. | 31 |
| Section. | III. | —Historical Sketch—Various Divisions of the Mental Faculties. | 35 |
| DIVISION FIRST. | |||
| THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES. | |||
| PRELIMINARY TOPICS. | |||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| CONSCIOUSNESS. | 39 | ||
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| ATTENTION. | 46 | ||
| CHAPTER III. | |||
| CONCEPTION. | 53 | ||
| PART FIRST. | |||
| THE PRESENTATIVE POWER. | |||
| SENSE, OR PERCEPTION BY THE SENSES. | 58 | ||
| Section. | I. | —General Observations. | 59 |
| Section. | II. | —Analysis of the Perceptive Process. | 61 |
| Section. | III. | —Analysis and Classification of the Qualities of Bodies. | 65 |
| Section. | IV. | —Organs of Sense—Analysis of their Several Functions. | 68 |
| Section. | V. | —Amount of Information derived from the Respective Senses. | 72 |
| Section. | VI. | —Credibility of our Sensations and Perceptions. | 81 |
| Section. | VII. | —Historical Sketch. | 84 |
| I. Of different Divisions of the Qualities of Bodies. | 84 | ||
| II. Of different Theories of Perception. | 87 | ||
| PART SECOND. | |||
| THE REPRESENTATIVE POWER. | |||
| GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. | 94 | ||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| MEMORY. | 96 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Mental Reproduction. | 96 |
| I. Nature. | 96 | ||
| II. Laws. | 101 | ||
| Section. | II. | —Mental Recognition, as distinguished from Mental Reproduction. | 113 |
| I. General Character. | 113 | ||
| II. What is implied in an Act of Memory. | 118 | ||
| III. Qualities of Memory. | 118 | ||
| IV. Memory as related to Intellectual Strength. | 121 | ||
| V. Cultivation of Memory. | 125 | ||
| VI. Effects of Disease on Memory. | 128 | ||
| VII. Influence of Memory on the Happiness of Life. | 131 | ||
| VIII. Historical Sketch—Different Theories of Memory. | 133 | ||
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| IMAGINATION. | 137 | ||
| Section. | I. | —General Character of this Faculty. | 137 |
| Section. | II. | —Relation to other Faculties. | 138 |
| Section. | III. | —Active and Passive Imagination. | 140 |
| Section. | IV. | —Imagination a simple Faculty. | 142 |
| Section. | V. | —Not merely the Power of Combination. | 144 |
| Section. | VI. | —Limited to Sensible Objects. | 147 |
| Section. | VII. | —Limited to new Results. | 148 |
| Section. | VIII. | —A Voluntary Power. | 149 |
| Section. | IX. | —Use and Abuse of Imagination. | 152 |
| Section. | X. | —Culture of Imagination. | 154 |
| Section. | XI. | —Historic Sketch—Various Definitions and Theories of Imagination by different Writers. | 158 |
| PART THIRD. | |||
| THE REFLECTIVE POWER. | |||
| GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. | 162 | ||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| THE SYNTHETIC PROCESS.—GENERALIZATION. | 165 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Nature of the Synthetic Process. | 165 |
| Section. | II. | —Province and Relation of several Terms employed to denote, in Part, or as a Whole, this Power of the Mind. | 172 |
| Section. | III. | —Historical Sketch—The Realist and Nominalist Controversy. | 177 |
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| THE ANALYTIC PROCESS—REASONING. | 180 | ||
| Section. | I. | —The Nature of the Process. | 181 |
| Section. | II. | —Relation of Judgment and Reasoning. | 187 |
| Section. | III. | —Different Kinds of Reasoning. | 188 |
| I. Demonstrative. | 189 | ||
| II. Probable—(1.) From Testimony; (2.) From Experience; (3.) From Analogy. | 192 | ||
| Section. | IV. | Use of Hypotheses and Theories in Reasoning. | 199 |
| Section. | V. | —Different Forms of Reasoning. | 203 |
| I. Analysis of the Proposition. | 203 | ||
| II. Analysis of the Syllogism. | 205 | ||
| III. Laws of Syllogism. | 207 | ||
| IV. Different Kinds of Syllogism. | 209 | ||
| V. Different Forms of Syllogism. | 210 | ||
| VI. Laws of Thought on which the Syllogism depends. | 212 | ||
| VII. Use and Value of the Syllogism. | 213 | ||
| VIII. Historical Sketch of the Science of Logic. | 219 | ||
| PART FOURTH. | |||
| INTUITIVE POWER. | |||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF THIS FACULTY. | 228 | ||
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| TRUTHS AND CONCEPTIONS FURNISHED BY THIS FACULTY. | 238 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Primary Truths. | 238 |
| Section. | II. | —Intuitive Conceptions. | 241 |
| I. Space. | 241 | ||
| II. Time. | 244 | ||
| III. Identity. | 249 | ||
| IV. Cause. | 257 | ||
| V. Idea of the Beautiful and the Right. | 262 | ||
| CHAPTER III. | |||
| THE CONCEPTION AND COGNIZANCE OF THE BEAUTIFUL. | 263 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Conception of the Beautiful. | 263 |
| Section. | II. | —Cognizance of the Beautiful. | 286 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |||
| IDEA AND COGNIZANCE OF THE RIGHT. | 303 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Idea of Right—Whence comes the Idea. | 303 |
| Section. | II. | —Cognizance of the Right—1. Nature of Conscience; 2. Authority of Conscience. | 314 |
| SUPPLEMENTARY TOPICS. | |||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| INTELLIGENCE IN MAN AS DISTINGUISHED FROM INTELLIGENCE IN THE BRUTE. | 329 | ||
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| MIND AS AFFECTED BY CERTAIN STATES OF THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM. | 342 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Sleep. | 343 |
| Section. | II. | —Dreams. | 351 |
| Section. | III. | —Somnambulism. | 360 |
| Section. | IV. | —Insanity. | 368 |
| DIVISION SECOND. | |||
| THE SENSIBILITIES. | |||
| PRELIMINARY TOPICS. | |||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| NATURE, DIFFICULTY, AND IMPORTANCE OF THIS DEPARTMENT OF THE SCIENCE. | 377 | ||
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE SENSIBILITIES. | 382 | ||
| PART FIRST. | |||
| SIMPLE EMOTIONS. | |||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| INSTINCTIVE EMOTIONS. | 395 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Of that general State of Mind known as Cheerfulness, and its Opposite, Melancholy. | 396 |
| Section. | II. | —Sorrow at Loss of Friends. | 399 |
| Section. | III. | —Sympathy with the Happiness and Sorrow of Others. | 402 |
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| RATIONAL EMOTIONS. | 409 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Emotions of Joy or Sadness, arising from the Contemplation of our own Excellence, or the Reverse. | 409 |
| Section. | II. | —Enjoyment of the Ludicrous. | 413 |
| Section. | III. | —Enjoyment of the New and Wonderful. | 424 |
| Section. | IV. | —Enjoyment of the Beautiful, and the Sublime. | 427 |
| Section. | V. | —Satisfaction in View of right Conduct, and Remorse in View of wrong. | 434 |
| PART SECOND. | |||
| THE AFFECTIONS. | |||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| BENEVOLENT AFFECTIONS. | 441 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Love of Kindred. | 442 |
| Section. | II. | —Love of Friends. | 447 |
| Section. | III. | —Love of Benefactors. | 452 |
| Section. | IV. | —Love of Home and Country. | 454 |
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| MALEVOLENT AFFECTIONS. | 458 | ||
| Resentment, with its Modifications, Envy, Jealousy, Revenge. | 458-469 | ||
| PART THIRD. | |||
| THE DESIRES. | |||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| NATURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF DESIRES. | 473 | ||
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| DESIRES ARISING FROM THE PHYSICAL CONSTITUTION. | 477 | ||
| CHAPTER III. | DESIRES ARISING FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF THE MIND. | 481 | |
| Section. | I. | —Desire of Happiness. | 481 |
| Section. | II. | —Desire of Knowledge. | 487 |
| Section. | III. | —Desire of Power. | 490 |
| Section. | IV. | —Certain Modifications of the Desire of Power, as Desire of Superiority and Desire of Possession. | 493 |
| Section. | V. | —Desire of Society. | 501 |
| Section. | VI. | —Desire of Esteem. | 505 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |||
| HOPE AND FEAR. | 510 | ||
| DIVISION THIRD. | |||
| THE WILL. | |||
| PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. | 517 | ||
| CHAPTER I. | |||
| NATURE OF THE WILL. | 520 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Elements involved in an Act of Will. | 521 |
| Section. | II. | —Investigation of these Elements. | 523 |
| I. Motive. | 523 | ||
| II. Choice. | 526 | ||
| III. Executive Volition. | 530 | ||
| CHAPTER II. | |||
| RELATION OF THE WILL TO OTHER FACULTIES. | 531 | ||
| CHAPTER III. | |||
| FREEDOM OF THE WILL. | 538 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Presumptions in Favor of Freedom. | 539 |
| Section. | II. | —Direct Argument. | 544 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |||
| CERTAIN QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE PRECEDING. | 549 | ||
| Section. | I. | —Contrary Choice. | 549 |
| Section. | II. | —Power to do what we were not disposed to do. | 551 |
| Section. | III. | —Influence of Motives. | 554 |
| I. Is the Will always as the greatest apparent Good. | 554 | ||
| II. Is the Will determined by the strongest Motive. | 555 | ||
| III. Are Motives the Cause and Volitions the Effect. | 556 | ||
| CHAPTER V. | |||
| THE DOCTRINE OF THE WILL VIEWED IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN TRUTHS OF RELIGION. | 560 | ||
| Section. | I. | —The Power which God exerts over the Human Mind and Will. | 561 |
| Section. | II. | —Man's Power over Himself. | 566 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |||
| STRENGTH OF WILL. | 569 | ||
| CHAPTER VII. | |||
| HISTORICAL SKETCH—OUTLINE OF THE CONTROVERSY RESPECTING FREEDOM OF THE WILL. | 573 | ||
| REFERENCES. | 584 | <||
