232 The Unity of the Organism 



tive are related, becomes most fundamental, especially when 

 a subject like that of ps^^chical association is up for con- 

 sideration. 



It is, then, fundamental to our enterprise to find out all 

 we can about the connection between the objective and sub- 

 jective aspects or sides of the organism. It would be folly 

 to expect results of any value from an effort of this sort 

 without having first given attention to the nature of each 

 of the sides. Now the objective "side" comes to much the 

 same thing as the physical or material organism as we are 

 conceiving the "sides." But since this has been the sub- 

 ject of our whole treatise up to the last two chapters, and 

 even of the greater part of these, we are already possessed 

 of enough understanding of this "side" for our present 

 purpose. 



As to the subjective "side" the case is different. Into 

 its nature, its makeup and activities, we have looked very 

 little — only in a bird's-eye-view fashion thus far in the 

 present chapter, and into its marginal or transitional zone 

 in the preceding two chapters. We are, consequently, 

 obliged to penetrate further into the subjective realm itself 

 before the main problem, that of the relation between the 

 sides, is attacked. 



The Essence of Wundtian Apperception 



This carries us back to tlie point at which we brought 

 Royce's suggestion of a relation between Loeb's tropism 

 theory and Wundt's apperception theory into the discus- 

 sion, the return to this point being for the purpose of using 

 Wundt's conception to induct us further into the nature of 

 mental life. The importance of examining Wundt's con- 

 ception is two-fold. In ihe first place, we want to know 

 whether or not it is genuinely descriptive of man's highest 

 psychical life. If it is, nothing can stand in the way of its 



