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��Achievement, results of modern passion for, 352-353.

Action, voluntary. See Volun tary action.

Adams and Sumner, &quot;Labor Problems,&quot; quoted, 315-316.

Addams, Jane, cited on kindness of poor to one another, 314.

Adjustment, function of atten tion as consciousness engaged in guiding, 168-169.

Alertness of modern mind, as compared with mind of primi tive man, 352.

Amiel, &quot;Journal Intime,&quot; cited, 365-

Angell, J. R., definition of reflex act quoted from, i ; quoted as to definition of instinct, 3; on the emotions, 68; on relation of feeling, the conscious side of emotion, to the motor, or physical side, 71-72; on the emotions as complex proc esses, 77; on relation between emotions and culture, 88; on volition and attention, 169; on voluntary attention, 173; on shifting of the attention, 179-180; on the sphere of con sciousness, 190.

Anger, as an emotion effective in welding a crowd, 255-256.

Animals, instinct of lower, com pared with those of human species, 6-7; effect of differ ence between nervous systems of young of, and those of young of human species, 13- 14; mode of responsiveness which characterizes, 187-188; question of consciousness and psychical life existent in, 189- 190.

375

��Arnold, Felix, &quot;Attention and Interest,&quot; cited, 165; on fluc tuations in attention-waves, 182.

Arnold, Matthew, idea of God expressed by, 367.

Assemblies, effect of, on mental processes of the individual, 236 ; classes of, 236 ff. ; the ac cidental concourse, 236-238 ; the purposive assembly; 238 ff. ; the inspirational gather ing, 239; three stages of men tal unity in inspirational gath erings, 240-244; stage of mental unity of, suited to in struction, 245-246; methods of promoting process of fusion in, 248-254; kinds of emotion most effective in promoting mental fusion in, 254-260; question as to whether process of psychic fusion is conducive to genuine religious expe rience, 260-261; the deliber ative body, 261-264; change in character of deliberative as semblies, 264.

Association, influences affecting principles of, in modern so ciety, 63-64.

Association of ideas, linking of mental impressions the physi cal counterpart of, 24.

Assurance, vital, as one of the classes of belief, 152, 153-154.

Attention, direction of, influ enced by feeling, 149-150; out lines of doctrine of, 164-165; definition of, 165; nature of, 165-166; function of, as the selective action of conscious ness, 1 66 ff. ; moving of, along line of interest, 167; relation

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