ABSTRACT
Mental changes so slight as to be quite uninferable from any gross motor expression, and insignificant even in the consciousness of the subject, are represented by definite changes in remote organs and functions. Those conative dispositions are represented in consciousness by the feeling, the affective tone, which is the effect of actual conditions upon them. The absolute intensity of the focal consciousness varies within wide limits. The focal consciousness at any moment may be by many degrees less intense than the contents of marginal consciousness at another time. The viscera transmit no sensations to the central consciousness; visceral pain is not the direct effect of the irritant, but of the contractions of the tissues in their efforts to expel it. That consciousness is but an infinitesimal fraction of the totality of psychic processes which take place in preparation for action, and which are actuated by every impulse manifesting itself in the organism.
