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relation to otlicr acts or aciion-systcnis and to iiialcrial 

 parts of tlie or^ranisin as to warrant the ascription to these 

 acts of causal intluence on other acts and on tlic materini 

 parts? 



(c) Provisional Classification of Psychical Facts 



A third and final introductory remark touches on tlu- 

 question of what shall he recognized as contained in the 

 orp-anisni's system of psychic attrihutes. FoUowinir our 

 regular custom of beginning with the ])lienomenon under con- 

 templation at its fullest, most indubitable expression, we 

 shall not go far amiss if we accei:)t the time-honored trium- 

 yirate of feeling, will, and intellect as the most obyious suli- 

 groups of highest psychic attributes ; for only a hopelessly 

 sophisticated })hilos()])hy and i)sych()l()gy can hesitate to 

 acknowledge that every full-grown, nonnal, ciyihzed 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, Thinhing, Feeling, Doing, by K. W. Scripture.) 



Perhaps the only thing that needs saying al)out these 

 sub-systems of mind is that our general stan(lj)oint aligns 

 us squarely with the tendency in present-day psychology to 

 accept them for what they actually are, striying 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 hving 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 siinj)li(ity as com- 

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

 limitations and ])itfalls of the genetic method to Ik.- be- 

 guiled into making souje one theory of the origin of mind 



