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The whole is admirably stated in the declaration: "He (the psychologist) acknowledges, in response to a logical demand, that every single psychical (mental) fact has its physiological counterpart."

But this is no more than Professor James has said in his book, Talks to Teachers: "Mentality terminates naturally in outward conduct," and he might have added that this is unavoidable, for that idea is included in the preceding quotations from his pen.

Following in the same direction, the great English naturalist, Romanes, says the fact of selective contraction is the criterion of mind and the indication of consciousness, and he finds this fact of selective contraction in the lowest known creatures.1 He says also that "all possible mental states have their signs."

These signs must necessarily be those of external physical conditions which result from mental states.

President McCosh, of Princeton, says of emotion: "It begins with a mental act, and throughout is essentially an operation of the mind.

Examine any case of emotion and you will always discover an idea as a substratum of the whole."

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There is no more fitting counsel for the close of this book than is contained in the following words from The School of Life, by William R. Alger: --

"And now there is one more lesson for us to learn, the climax of all the rest; namely, to make a personal application to ourselves of everything which we know. Unless we master this lesson, and act on it, the other lessons are virtually useless, and thus robbed of their essential glory. The only living end or aim of everything we experience, of every truth we are taught, is the practical use we make of it for the enrichment of the soul, the attuning of the thoughts and passions, the exaltation of life. . . . When we do what we know, then first does it put on vital lustre and become divinely precious."