Excerpt from Habit and Intelligence, in Their Connexion With the Laws of Matter and Force, Vol. 2 of 2: A Series of Scientific Essays Physiology is useless as a guide in any but elementary psychology, though all mind depends on nervous action - Proofs of this - Feeling is wider than con sciousness - Feelings of sensation and feelings of consciousness - Gradations of consciousness - Emotions - Feel ing is inexplicable - Thought is explicable - It begins with the sense of the relation of sensations to each other - Attention to one. Particular sensation, or to one particular relation between sensations Instance in geometrical study - We have no real consciousness of relations, only of related things - But we have knowledge of relations - Unconscious thought thus explained - Thought ceases to be conscious when it is of relations only, to the exclusion of the feelings between which the relations are - What is taken for consciousness of thought is often really consciousness of mental effort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.