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Evolutionary Psychology demands a Mind-dust, 146. Some alleged proofs that it exists, 150. Refutation of these proofs, 154. Self-compounding of mental facts is inadmissible, 158. Can states of mind be unconscious? 162. Refutation of alleged proofs of unconscious thought, 164. Difficulty of stating the connection between mind and brain, 176. 'The Soul' is logically the least objectionable hypothesis, 180. Conclusion, 183.

Psychology is a natural Science, 183. Introspection, 185. Experiment, 193. Sources of error, 194. The 'Psychologist's fallacy,' 196.

Time relations: lapses of Consciousness—Locke v. Descartes, 300. The 'unconsciousness' of hysterics not genuine, 302. Minds may split into dissociated parts, 206. Space-relations: the Seat of the Soul, 314. Cognitive relations, 316. The Psychologist's point of view, 318. Two kinds of knowledge, acquaintance and knowledge about, 331.

Consciousness tends to the personal form, 325. It is in constant change, 229. It is sensibly continuous, 337. 'Substantive' and 'transitive' parts of Consciousness, 343. Feelings of relation, 345. Feelings of tendency, 349. The 'fringe' of the object, 358. The feeling of rational sequence, 261. Thought possible in any kind of mental material, 265. Thought and language, 367. Consciousness is cognitive, 371. The word Object, 275. Every cognition is due to one integral pulse of thought, 376. Diagrams of Thought's stream, 379. Thought is always selective, 284.

The Empirical Self or Me, 291. Its constituents, 393. The material self, 393. The Social Self, 393. The Spiritual Self, 396. Difficulty of apprehending Thought as a purely spiritual activity,