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 INDEX

��Occupation, significance of, in development of mental life, 47-49; determination of hab itual mental processes by, 290.

Occupational types, 290 ff. ; the ministerial, 291-306; the wage- earning, 306-321 ; the business type, 321-337-

Old, passions aroused by appeal to sentiment for the, 258-^260.

Openness, lack of, characteristic of art of suggestion, 233-234.

Oratory, development of, with progress of society, 15-16; promotion of mental fusion by imaginative, passionate, 2553-

254-

Organs of body, grouped accord ing to function, 72.

��Pain, distinction between un pleasantness and, 69-70.

Panics, effect of emotion of fear shown in, 254: financial, as ex amples of mental epidemics, 267; peculiarity of financial, among mental epidemics of modern times, 286-287.

Passion, suggestibility of those under sway of, 229-230.

Paul, the apostle, on keeping re ligious emotions within bounds of self-control, 288-289.

Peculiarity, arousing of feeling by a, 116-117.

Personality, power of, as a sug gestive force, 227-228.

Persuasion, greater importance of function of, in human life, with each upward advance, 15 J distinction between suggestion and, 234-235.

Philosophical thinking, trend of present-day, 371.

Philosophy, construction of a, by men, 39; definition of a,

39-

Physiological disturbance, rela tion between feeling-tone and, 70-71.

��Pictorial language, effectiveness of, for arousing feeling, 125- 128.

Pierce, Professor, inventor and critic of phrase &quot;detached subconsciotisness,&quot; 17.

Pillsbury, &quot; Psychology of Rea soning,&quot; cited, 42; on doubt and belief, 145.

Pleasant and unpleasant states of consciousness, cause of, by different experiences, 75-79-

Poetry, appropriateness of, for developing the sentiments, 112; importance of, to the emo tional life, 130.

Politics, demoralization in, re sulting from indulgence in ex cessive emotions, 84-85.

Popular manias, 265-266; illus trations of, 266-268. See Mental epidemics.

Population, relation of density of, to mental epidemics, 282- 283.

Preachers, how sentiments and ideals are supremely signifi cant to, 109-110; relation of, to religious doubt, 158-163; means of compelling attention by, 171-172; should make as small demand as possible on voluntary attention, 174-175; means of securing spontaneous attention, 177; significance to, of mental characteristic of shifting attention, 179-181 ; heed to be paid by, to fluc tuations of the attention, 183- 185 ; should be men of strong will, 205-206; should aim at eliciting a voluntary response from their hearers, 206; dis tinction to be observed by, be tween suggestion and persua sion, 235 ; how method of sug gestion is rendered easy to, 235 ; special wisdom and un derstanding of psychological laws necessary to, in making appeals to promiscuous assem-

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