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lectures were delivered at University College, London, in the autumn of 1914, and are printed with hardly any alteration.

I must appear unfortunate in having laid so much stress on “feeling,” just when high authorities are expressing a doubt whether the word has any meaning at all (see Croce’s Aesthetic, and Professor J. A. Smith’s discussion in Aristotelian Proceedings for 1913-1914). I can only say here that the first and main thing which the word suggests to me is the concernment of the whole “body-and-mind” (cp. p. 7, note), as Plato puts it in building up his account of psychical unity on the simple sentence, “The man has a pain in his finger” (Republic, 462 D). It is the whole man, the “body-and-mind,” who has the pain, and