CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION - P. xv 



PART I 







THE LINES OF DEVELOPMENT 

 CHAPTER I 



THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF MENTAL EVOLUTION 



(i) The biological view regards Mind as an organ evolved to adapt 

 behaviour to the environment, (2) and tends to reduce its action 

 to a mechanical process. (3) Parallelism in the end reduces Mind 

 to an epi-phenomenon. (4) The object of Comparative Psychology 

 is to determine empirically the actual function of Mind in succes- 

 sive stages of development. (5) It involves a social as well as ah 

 individual psychology. (6) The statement of the higher phases also 

 opens up philosophical questions, (7) and on the solution of these 

 depends the final interpretation of the recorded movement. 



Pp. I-I 7 



CHAPTER II 



THE STRUCTURE OF MIND 



(i) Mental operations are known in the first instance as objects of 

 consciousness. (2) Mind is the permanent unity including con- 

 sciousness and the sum of processes continuous with consciousness 

 and determining it. , (3) These processes involve, but are not 

 identical with, physical processes, constituting with them a psycho- 

 physical unity. - - Pp. 18-28 



