CHAPTER XV 

 THE COMPOSITION OF MIND^ 



IN pursuing the analysis of a complex series 

 of phenomena, with the object of ascertain- 

 ing the simple ultimate elements of which 

 the complex series is made up, we shall some- 

 times most satisfactorily accomplish our pur- 

 pose if we begin with the most complicated cases 

 which the series presents. After explaining these 

 by resolving them into their less complex com- 

 ponents, our analysis " must proceed similarly 

 with these components ; and so, by successive 

 decompositions, must descend to the simpler 

 and more general, reaching at last the simplest 

 and most general." Let us proceed, after this 

 fashion, to inquire into the Composition of 

 Mind. Beginning with the most highly in- 

 volved operations of conscious intelligence, and 

 neglecting, for the time being, the consideration 

 of those emotional states by which all operations 

 of intelligence are to a greater or less degree ac- 

 companied, let us pursue our analysis until we 

 have arrived at those ultimate units of feeling 

 in the manifold compounding of which all con- 

 ^ [See Introduction, § 20.] 

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