CHAPTER VII--CONCRETIONS IN DISCOURSE AND IN EXISTENCE Pages 161-183
So-called abstract qualities primary.--General qualities prior to
particular things.--Universals are concretions in
discourse.--Similar reactions, merged in one habit of reproduction,
yield an idea.--Ideas are ideal.--So-called abstractions complete
facts.--Things concretions of concretions.--Ideas prior in the
order of knowledge, things in the order of nature.--Aristotle's
compromise.--Empirical bias in favour of contiguity.--Artificial
divorce of logic from practice.--Their mutual
involution.--Rationalistic suicide.--Complementary character of
essence and existence


CHAPTER VIII--ON THE RELATIVE VALUE OF THINGS AND IDEAS Pages 184-204
Moral tone of opinions derived from their logical
principle.--Concretions in discourse express instinctive
reactions.--Idealism rudimentary.--Naturalism sad.--The soul akin
to the eternal and ideal.--Her inexperience.--Platonism
spontaneous.--Its essential fidelity to the ideal.--Equal rights of
empiricism.--Logic dependent on fact for its importance, and for
its subsistence.--Reason and docility.--Applicable thought and
clarified experience


CHAPTER IX--HOW THOUGHT IS PRACTICAL Pages 205-235
Functional relations of mind and body.--They form one natural
life.--Artifices involved in separating them.--Consciousness
expresses vital equilibrium and docility.--Its worthlessness as a