ABSTRACT
In General.—Books on psychology commonly announce three divisions of mental life, cognition, emotion and volition, or, in the older phraseology, the intellect, the feelings and the will, but give nine-tenths or more of.their space to cognition and the emotions. In so far as psychology attempts merely to describe states of consciousness, this subordination is not unfair. For, although’ the will in a broad sense deserves as much study as the intellect, states of volitional consciousness, that is to say, feelings of willing, do not require lengthy explanation. For their description this one section will suffice, The will, in the broad sense of the entire basis of human action, will receive due attention in Part III.
