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��fusion of individuals, 263- 264; steps leading to present- day change in character of the, 264.

Delivery, consideration of, as a means of arousing feeling, 116-125^

Democratic spirit, growth of, as a result of modern conditions, 365.

Denunciation, avoidance of, in treatment of doubt, 158-161.

Descriptive speech, effectiveness of, for arousing feeling, 125- 128.

Desire, relation of feeling to, 79-81.

Detached subconsciousness, the ory of a, 17-18.

Devotion, creating impression of, a condition of suggestive power, 226.

Dewey, John, &quot;How We Think,&quot; quoted, 34, 38, 47.

Differentiation of mental sys tems 47 ff. ; influences which cause, 47-52; influences of native organic differences, 49- 50; influences of intellectual environment, 50-51; high de gree of differentiation result ing from the various influ ences, 51-52; effect of upon meaning, 52-56.

Diseases due to modern environ mental conditions, 345-346.

Dishonesty, form of doubt called, 159.

Dispositions, native, place of, among controls of conduct, 7-8.

Dissociation theory of the sub conscious, 16-17.

Division of labour, influence of, upon mental systems, 48-49.

Dogmatism, danger of tendency to habit of, in ministers, 293-

295.

Doubt, a state or attitude result ing from the arrest of the process of believing, 142-143;

��explanation of, demanded rather than of belief, 145; when justifiable, 146; intimate connection between belief and, 148-152; the present an era of, 157; the preacher s relation to religious, 158-163.

Drama, influence of, in develop ing the sentiments, 112; use of, to secure spontaneous at tention, 177.

Dramatic action, arousing of feeling by, 120-123; distinction between arousing feeling by, and by expression of it in voice and gesture, 123-125.

Dunlap, &quot; A System of Psychol ogy,&quot; quoted, 28, 212-213; quoted on effects to be achieved by singing in assem blies, 251-252.

Economic dependence of minis ters, effects of, 301-306.

Economic problems, pressure of modern, for consideration in political sphere, 363-364.

Education, results from, in the enrichment of life and exten sion of religious feelings, 86- 89.

Elsenhans, quoted concerning memory images, 25-26.

Emotion, feeling and, 68-69; re lation between physiological disturbance and feeling-tone, 70-71 ; relation of feeling, the conscious side of, to the motor, or physical side, 71-75 ; com plexity of, as a process, 77; effects of indulgence in exces sive, 84; three ways of arous ing, 115 ; excitation of, by ex pression and communication as a means of arousing feeling, 117-125 ; skilful use of lan guage as a means of arousing, 125-132; deliberation and choice rendered impossible by, 204 ; suggestibility of those un der sway of, 229-230; kinds

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