Claim is made that it has sufficiently explained the sensitive and mental life by the sole agency of physical and chemical forces, and thus to have removed the boundary between live and dead matter.
The divine Spirit has founded in the bosom of mankind such a centre of mental life; namely, the Church.
Throughout the volume one sees the adoption of the broad biological standpoint in mental life.
Roughly speaking, mental life is composed of two parts; the unconscious, or instinctive, and the conscious.
The extension of wants and of the means of their satisfaction was first evident in the field of commerce, though a similar tendency came more and more to prevail in the various departments of mental life.
The world culture of this period, moreover, sustained a completely altered relation to language, that universal vehicle both of mental life and of the material culture which grows up out of the intercourse of peoples.
In this respect, world religion manifests a conserving power greater than that of any other product of mental life.
Empirical psychology, then, alone remains for the extension of our knowledge of mental life, while rational psychology shrivels up from a doctrine into a mere discipline, which watches that the limits of experience are not overstepped.
And if mental life were a merely incidental quality, like the possession of red blood, there would be no objection to the inference.
In the same way the psychological evolutionist will not advance far if he disregards the distinctiveness of mental life, with principles of its own quite different from those of the bodily life with which it is inextricably associated.
Attention, Interest, and Imitation[147] Imitation is a process of very great importance for the development of mental life in both men and animals.
Personality as a complex: Personality defined in terms of the unity of mental life is a conception that has grown up in the recent "individual psychology," so called.
Such observations will take account also of the rhythm of the pupil's mental life as well as of the character of his store of thoughts.
The difficulty arises from asserting the primacy of ideas in mental life, and then speaking of self-activity, which presupposes the primacy of motor, or impulsive activities.
In Herbart's psychology it assumes a most important place, since the primacy of mental life is, in this system, ascribed to ideas.
She early discovered that for self-satisfaction she would have to live a mental life of her own.
It was very evident that from earliest childhood the girl had led a mental life of which her relatives knew nothing.
About the evolution of the young woman's mental life we have unfortunately had to rely much upon her own word.
Cosmic evolution proceeds always from that which is poorer to that which is richer, from the simple to the complex, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from dead matter to living matter, from physical to mental life.
In mental life, diversity only appears with reflection and consciousness.
The question may suggest itself here "why this extensive participation of the unconscious in mental life", which brings us to a discussion of the principles of resistance and repression.
With the consideration of the Freudian psychology we enter upon the interpretative phase of psychiatry and to a very large extent of mental life in general.
Mental life, after all, expresses itself in a series of reactions destined to result in a proper adaptation to environmental conditions, and the causes which determine a given reaction may be psychic as well as physical in nature.
Since there is no accident in mental life, and since there is behind every action a force or group of forces, no smallest action is insignificant to the person trained to understand.
There is no chance in mental life; every mental phenomenon--hence every nervous phenomenon--has a cause and meaning.
Next in order of extent to our morphological knowledge of these organisms is that of their behavior, mental life, and social relations.
Möbius (1867) has described interesting observations concerning the mental life of the chimpanzee.
Mental life of two Macacus rhesus monkeys in captivity.
Evidences of Ideation in Apes Reliable literature of any sort concerning the behavior and mental life of the anthropoid apes is difficult to find, and still more rare are reports concerning experimental studies of these animals.
Psychology is the science of mental life, both of its phenomena and their conditions.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
