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their coalescence, 103; and motor habit, distinct in kind, 103; and pure memory, 170.

Memory-images, and recognition, 92; and the normal consciousness, 96; recognition by, 118; utility determines retention of, 97.
Mental and physical, the, not mere duplicates, 300.
Mental functions, utilitarian character of, xvii.
Mental hearing, 149.
Mental life, tones of, 221.
Mental states, unconscious, 183.
Metaphysical problems, empirical solution of, 83.
Metaphysics and psychology, relation of, xv.
Mill, J. S., and possible sensation, 306.
Mind, and body, relation of, 295; degree of tension of, 126; normal work of, 225.
Mnemonics, 101.
Moeli, 157 note.
Moment, the present, how constituted, 178.
More, Henry, and Descartes, 255.
Moreau de Tours, 228 note.
Motion, and its cause, 257; in mechanics, only an abstraction, 268.
Motor aphasia, does not involve word deafness, 138.
Motor apparatus, in course of construction, 112.
'Motor diagram,' the, 134, 136, 153; and brain lesions, 143.
Movement, absolutely indivisible, 246 ff.; and its trajectory, 250 ff.; as a change of quality, 258; can only produce movement, 119; essence of, 291; real, akin to consciousness, 267; real, and apparent, 258; real, for the physicist, 254; real, quality rather than quantity, 267; real, the transference of a state, 267; relative, for the mathematician, 254; rhythm of, and colours, 268; rhythm of, and sounds, 269.
Movements, consolidated, difficulty in modifying their order, 112; indivisibles, occupying duration, 268; in space and qualities in consciousness, 267; of imitation, 124; prepare the choice among memory-images, 113; real, not merely change of position, 256.
Moving body, 246 ff.
Müller, 100 note, 108, 116, 125.
Münck, 107 note.
Münsterberg, 125.


Necessity, and freedom, 325, 330 ff.; natural and freedom, 279.
Negative hallucinations, 151.
Nerves, section of, 7.
Nervous system, 3, 17, 227; a conductor, 40; channel for the transmission of movements, 81; constructed in view of action, 21.
Newton, 257 note.
Nominalism and conceptualism, criticism of, 202 ff.


Object, the, and common sense, viii.
Objects and facts are carved out of reality, 239.
Oblivion and materiality, 232.
Oppenheim, 99 note.
Order of representation, necessary or contingent, 187.
Orientation of consciousness, towards action, 233.


Pain, a local effort, 56; real significance of, 55; the nature of, 311.
Parallelism, x.
Past, an idea, 74; and present, differ in more than degree, 175; essentially virtual, 173; that which acts no longer, 74; has ceased to be useful, 193; how stored up, 87; survival of, 193; survives in two forms, 87.
Past states, synthesized in character, 188.
Pathology, evidence from, 133.
Perception, always full of memory images, 170; always occupies some duration, 25; and affection, difference between, 53; and matter, vii; and matter, kinship of, 292; and memory, difference between, 71; and memory, differ in kind, 75; and memory-image, not things but a progress, 162; and memory, interpenetrate, 71; and memory point to action, 302; and space, 23; a question addressed to motor activity, 42; attention and memory, relations of, 120 ff.; attentive, a reflexion, 124; centres of, 160; directed towards action, 21; displays virtual action, 8; distinct, brought about by two opposite currents, 163; gives us 'things-in-themselves,' 303; impersonal, 25; less objective in fact than in theory, 70; limitation of, 34; means indeterminate action, 22; mixed character of, 270; never without affection, 59; of invidual objects, not primary, 205; of matter, definition of, 8; of