How, though, you may now ask, do we know anything about the distribution of mental phenomena in the animal kingdom?
In the first place, we find all through the animal kingdom that size of brain and complexity of nervous system are matched by range and complexity of mental phenomena.
Whether organic causes exercise a direct influence over any other classes of mental phenomena, is hitherto as far from being ascertained, as is the precise nature of the organic conditions even in the case of instincts.
I do not mean, by what has been said, to imply that in our own observation of mental phenomena we are limited to the experience of our own minds, but only that this is the principal source of our information.
Various answers have been given to this question, by writers not unaccustomed to the careful observation of mental phenomena.
Whether organic causes exercise a direct influence over any other classes of mental phenomena, is hitherto as far from being ascertained as is the precise nature of the organic conditions even in the case of instincts.
These are the phenomena that occur during sleep--a class of mental phenomena of great consequence to be observed and analyzed in any study of psychology.
It is necessary, therefore, to carry our investigations into a class of mental phenomena in which all physical causation ceases to afford an adequate guide to a conclusion.
This is a deduction to be drawn from the manifestations of mental phenomena.
If I experienced no mental phenomena of any sort, evidence of the existence of a mind would be lacking.
We are conscious of mental phenomena as well, of the phenomena of the subjective order, of sensations and ideas.
It is what it is perceived to be; and the more we know of mental phenomena, the more do we know of the mind.
Mind also in this way, like each of the physical forces, often acts as a link in an endless chain of causes and effects, and is connected with non-mental phenomena in accordance with the great principles of science.
Proportionality of cause to effect is apparently disobeyed not only in physical but also in mental phenomena.
The storage also of cerebral impressions, and cerebral energy, ready to call forth ideas, and thereby powerful emotions, by the exciting action of memory, may also be viewed as an instance of similar kind belonging to mental phenomena.
So far investigation has been unable to discover a valid reason for a belief in the existence of mental phenomena, as such, apart from some kind of material basis.
The Hermetic Masters long since discovered that while the Principle of Rhythm was invariable, and ever in evidence in mental phenomena, still there were two planes of its manifestation so far as mental phenomena are concerned.
By a knowledge of the Principle of Vibration, as applied to Mental Phenomena, one may polarize his mind at any degree he wishes, thus gaining a perfect control over his mental states, moods, etc.
But all psychology must be based upon the observation and classification of mental phenomena, as revealed in consciousness, and not constructed in an "independent" and à priori method.
The view here expressed, that relation to an object is an ultimate irreducible characteristic of mental phenomena, is one which I shall be concerned to combat.
Since Kant it has been customary to recognize three great divisions of mental phenomena, which are typified by knowledge, desire and feeling, where "feeling" is used to mean pleasure and discomfort.
There were, of course, some who employed the empirical method in psychology, but they were so far from comprehending the full scope of mental phenomena that, at best, their work gave the promise of a science rather than a science itself.
We observe, study and interpret, mental phenomena as a most important aid to physical diagnosis.
We begin this study in our student days, and we never cease this careful observation of mental phenomena.
Lawyers tell us sir, that the merchant, the artisan, the laborer and the men who till the soil are as competent and intelligent judges of mental phenomena as the physician.
They belong to a region of mental phenomena, of great complexity, in which associations and idiosyncracies have free play, and seem as little capable of definite explanation as much of the stuff that dreams are made of.
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