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��232; effectiveness of, propor tional to immediateness of re sponse, 232-233; art of, char acterized by lack of openness and straightforwardness, 233- 234; sharp differentiation be tween persuasion and, 234- 235; warning to preachers re garding, 235 ; collective, in mobs, 242-244.

Superhuman influences, domi nance of, over people living in conditions of natural environ ment, 341-342.

Teachers, supreme significance of sentiments and ideals to, 109-110.

Technical terms, divergence of mental systems in their theo retical meanings to an extent overcome by, 55-56.

Terrors, popular, as examples of mental epidemics, 267.

Theological thinking, influence of modern philosophical think ing felt by, 371.

Theology, attitude of business type of mind toward, 332-334.

Theoretical meaning and its re lation to the functional, 45~47-

Thinking, defined, 34; the psy chology of, 35 ff. ; the func tion of, to guide the organism in its adjustment to the en vironment, 212.

Titchener, E. B., &quot;Text-book of Psychology,&quot; quoted, _ 88; quoted on form of conscious ness, 166; cited on scope of attention, 177.

Traube-Hering wave, the, 181.

Tulip craze in Holland, example of popular mania, 266-267.

��Uncultured population, condition favourable to mental epidemic created by, 272-273.

Understanding, problem of, re sulting from differentiation of

��mental systems, 56-58; double character of problem, 58.

Unemployment, evils of, 315.

Unitarian revolt, reasons for the, 369.

Unity, psychical, in an accidental concourse, 236-238; lack of, in street preacher s audiences, 238; of the inspirational gath ering, 239-2^0; three stages of mental, in inspirational gath erings, 240-244.

Universe, effect of scientific in quiry on modern conception of, 355-357; confusion in the modern mind as to relation of God to the, 358-359.

Unpleasantness, distinction be tween pain and, 69-70; cause of, by some experiences, and of pleasantness by Others, 75- 79-

��Vegetable life, mode of respon siveness characterizing, 187- 188; psychical life wanting in, 189.

Versatility and shallowness, danger of development of combination, in ministers, 292- 293-

Virtues at the basis of success ful business, 329-330.

Vital assurance, one of the three classes of belief, 152, 153-154.

Vital processes, correlation of, in the organism, 76; connec tion of, with pleasant and un pleasant states of conscious ness, 77-79.

Vividness of recalled experience, law of, 24.

Volition, close relation of atten tion to, 169-170.

Voluntary action, meaning of, 186 ; fundamental truths neces sary to conception of, 186 ff. ; viewed as that which is di rected toward a consciously conceived or imaged end,

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