260 CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXPERIENCE 



process of actions in its adaptations to circum 

 stance. If we apply this evolutionary logic in 

 psychology, where shall we stop? Questions of 

 limits of stimuli in a given sense, say hearing, are 

 in reality questions of temporary arrests, adjust 

 ments marking the favorable equilibrium of the 

 whole organism ; they connect with the question of 

 the use of sensation in general and auditory sensa 

 tions in particular for life-habits; of the origin 

 and use of localized and distinguished perception; 

 and this, in turn, involves within itself the whole 

 question of space and time recognition; the signi 

 ficance of the thing-and-quality experience, and 

 so on. And when we are told that the question of 

 the origin of space experience has nothing at all 

 to do with the question of the nature and signifi 

 cance of the space experienced, the statement is 

 simply evidence that the one who makes it is still 

 at the static standpoint; he believes that things, 

 that relations, have existence and significance 

 apart from the particular conditions under which 

 they come into experience, and apart from the 

 special service rendered in those particular con 

 ditions. 



Of course, I am far from saying that every psy 

 chologist must make the whole journey. Each in 

 dividual may contract, as he pleases, for any sec 

 tion or subsection he prefers ; and undoubtedly the 

 well-being of the science is advanced by such divi- 



