The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides

they resemble intelligent acts

same ends at which the animals' consciousness,

The performances of animal instinct seem semi-automatic, and the reflex acts of self-preservation certainly are so.

mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

spiritualist and the associationist must both be 'cerebralists,'

The eye is blind, the ear deaf, the hand insensible and motionless. And conversely, if the brain be injured, consciousness is abolished or altered, even although every other organ in the body be ready to play its normal part.

Is the character of the actions such that we must believe them to be performed for the sake of their result?

the Kosmos an expression of intelligence rational in its inward nature, or a brute external fact pure and simple ? If we find ourselves, in contemplating it, unable to banish the impression that it is a realm of final purposes, that it exists for the sake of something, we place intelligence at the heart of it and have a religion. If, on the contrary, in surveying its irremediable flux, we can think of the present only as so much mere mechanical sprouting from the

The pursuance of future ends and the choice of means for their attainment are thus the mark and criterion of the presence of mentality in a phenomenon