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relation to other acts or action-systems and to material 

 parts of the organism as to warrant the ascription to these 

 acts of causal influence on other acts and on the material 

 parts ? 



(c) Provisional Classification of Psychical Facts 



A third and final introductory remark touches on the 

 question of what shall be recognized as contained in the 

 organism's system of psychic attributes. Following our 

 regular custom of beginning with the phenomenon under con- 

 templation at its fullest, most indubitable expression, we 

 shall not go far amiss if we accept the time-honored trium- 

 virate of feeling, will, and intellect as the most obvious sub- 

 groups of highest psychic attributes ; for only a hopelessly 

 sophisticated philosophy and psychology can hesitate to 

 acknowledge that every full-grown, normal, civilized human 

 organism, at least, is at once a sort of reservoir of feeling, 

 sentiment, and emotion ; a dynamo of resolution and exe- 

 cution ; and a granary of intelligence and reason. ( See, for 

 example, Thinking, Feeling, Doing, by E. W. Scripture.) 



Perhaps the only thing that needs saying about these 

 sub-systems of mind is that our general standpoint aligns 

 us squarely with the tendency in present-day psychology to 

 accept them for what they actually are, striving to become 

 acquainted with them and to assess their importance on this 

 basis. To ascertain first of all the facts on the psychic side 

 of the living animal, then next to interpret, to correlate, to 

 explain these facts, are cardinal principles of procedure in 

 our enterprise. For one thing, as an evolutional zoologist 

 of many years' practice in speculating on how animal parts 

 originated (even those of almost infinite simplicity as com- 

 pared with the mind of man), I am too familiar with the 

 limitations and pitfalls of the genetic method to be be- 

 guiled into making some one theory of the origin of mind 



