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��blies, 247; use of emotion of fear by, 255; use of anger by, 255-256; use of love, 257; use of appeal to sentiment of lib erty, 258; appeal to sentiment for the old to be avoided by, 259-260 ; problems presented to, by labouring class, 307 ; im portance to, of problem pre sented by labouring class and modern economic conditions, 320-321 ; religious peculiarities of the business man to be spe cially noted by, 336-337; note to be taken by, of modern de cline in belief in personal im mortality, 353 ; problem pre sented to, by modern popular conception of natural law, 360; task of, to point men to service as the true road to self- realization, 366.

Preaching, as one method of modifying strength of in stincts, 6 ; progress of, with advance of society, 16; rela tion between mental images and, 32-33 ; problem of making one s self understood, 56-58; problem of exposition in, 58- 59; loss of strength of stimu lus resulting from repetition, 83 ; danger of high emotional effects in, 84-86; value of cul ture in, 90-91 ; importance of, as a means of developing sen timents and ideals, 112-114; effective means and methods of exiciting feelings in, 115-

134-

Prejudices, origin and nature of, 40-44; responsibility of na tional, for war, 41 ; sharing of, as a means of securing confi dence, 228-229.

Presentations, six ways in which the mind may react to new, 136-144; consequences to be deduced from, 144-148. .

Prestige, suggestive force of, 226-227.

��Primary and secondary mean ing, 43-47.

Processes of mental organ ization, 35-41.

Public opinion, influence of, on

deliberative assemblies, 264.

Purposive assembly, the, 238 ff.

��Racial habit, view of instinct as, 4-5; effect of, upon sugges tibility of a population, 277- 278.

Rationality, sensitivity plus mo- tivity plus, the mode of re sponsiveness characterizing human life, 187-188 ; what con stitutes rationality, 191.

Reading, importance of, for de veloping the sentiments, 112.

Reality of anything, sense of, derived by adjusting oneself to it, 309-310-

Recall of mental image, 22 ff. ; conditions of recall, 23-25 ; in exactness of recalled image, 25-29.

Reflective and unreflective or ganization in mental system, 36-41.

Reflexes, definition and elucida tion of, 1-3; distinction be tween instincts and, 3.

Regularity in repetition, avoid ance of, 231-232.

Religion, demoralizing effects in, of indulgence of excessive emotions, 84-86; relation be tween growing intelligence and, 86-89; close relation be tween culture and, 90-93; the outlook for, 372-374.

Religious experience, value to, of process of psychic fusion, 260^261.

Religious movements, conditions favourable to, as a form of mental epidemic, 276.

Religious peculiarities of the business man, 332-337.

Repetition, suggestion rendered

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