Herrick, Corollafies of Neurological Discovefies. i6i 



factors are used in the manufacture of local signs and cease to 

 have the direct impulsive power. The type of nervous activity- 

 being the reflex circuit, the arcs lying within the conscious 

 sphere retain their impulsive nature in one form or another. 

 The modern investigations which seem to identify a motor ele- 

 ment in emotion, as well as back of will, enforce the truth that 

 the dynamic element is attached to the stimuli of all conscious 

 states so that it is not necessary to search for some special ener- 

 gizing power in the nature of will. In a recent paper by Pro- 

 fessor A. T. Ormund noticed elsewhere in this number this fact 

 is clearly recognized. He says: "What we call will can, in 

 these early psychical activities, be nothing but the conscious re- 

 sponses by which the organism effects its assimilative and adap- 

 tive movements." It is then only what we should expect when 

 all kinds of presentation to consciousness prove dynamic and 

 these impulses only need to be illuminated by intelligence to 

 form elementary acts of will. When choice enters, inhibition 

 is the added element. The fact that the resultant (act) is evi- 

 dently not an algebraic sum of the external stimuli but a pro- 

 duct of the internal (vestigeal, etc.) conditions into the former 

 gives us the intuition of freedom. Ormund goes further and 

 claims that in all judgment the central thing is a volitional im- 

 pulse. Thus " the judgment puts a kind of personal stamp of 

 endorsement on the object of perception." 



