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Resemblance of invention to,48.Intellectual factor,15.Intuition,282,285.Introspectors,321.Intentional combination of images,95.Interest, a factor in creation,82.Interesting, defined,36.Invention arises to satisfy a need,271;Higher forms of,140ff.;in morals,300;in successive parts,296;of monopolies,282;Pain of,51;Spontaneity of,51;subjected to tradition,269.Inventions, Amplifiers of,270;largely anonymous,275;Mechanical, neglected by psychologists,263;Stratification of,272.Inventors deified,269;Oddities of,72.James, William,21,25,37,83,112.Janet,340.Jealousy, stimulates imagination,34.Jordæns,145.Joy,34.Kant,248.Kepler,246,247.Klopstock,215.Kühn,129.Lagrange,71.Lamennais,73.Lang,128,261.Language, Origin of,120.Laplace,250.Larvated epilepsy,141.Lavoisier,246.Law,294.Lazarus,47.Leibniz,73,74,146,253,296n.Lélut,141.Leurechon,277.Liebig,244.Linnæus,183.Literal mysticism,226.Localization,65.Loch Lomond,58.Locke,309.Lombroso,141,142.Louis XIV,150.Love,34;and hate,134.Love-plays,99.Machiavelli,73.Machines, counterfeits of human beings,279.Man and animals, Specific quality of,273.Manu,300.Mastery, Spirit of,114.Materials of imagination,299.Maury, A.,6n.Mechanic and poet,279.Mechanical aptitude,145.Mechanical imagination, Ideal of,268.Mediate association,59.Memory, Predominant tendencies in,61;untrustworthy,17.Men, Great, as makers of history,150.Mendelssohn,145,213n.,215,216.Mental chemistry,82.Merchant sailors,282.Metamorphosis,28;of deities,129;Regressive,171.Metaphysical speculation,251;thought, Stages of,252.Metaphysics,252ff.Methods of invention,243.Meynert,100.Michaelangelo,145,148,149.Michelet,186,306.Middle Ages, predominantly imaginative,174.Military invention,295;Conditions of,297.Mill, John Stuart,82,284.Milton,73.Mimicry,98.Mind, Varieties of,320.Mission, Consciousness of,148.Misunderstanding of the new,151.Mobility of inventors,258.Monadology,253.Money, Invention of,286;sought as an end,289.Monge,237.Moses,300.More,303,309.Morgan, Lloyd,99.Mormons,307.Monoideism,87.Montgolfier,277.Moral geniuses,301.Moravian brotherhood,307.Mosso,71,340.Motor elements in all representation,4;elements, Rôle of,7;manifestation basis of creation,9.Movements, Importance of, in imagination,3.Mozart,73,145.Müller, Max,120,129,130.Mummy powder,261.Münsterberg,60.Muses,50.Music an emotional language,220;Precocity in,144.Musical imagination,212,350.Musset, Alfred de,335.Myers,342.Mystic imagination,221ff.,335.Mystics, Abuse of allegory, by,225;Belief of,227;Metaphorical style of,224.Mysticism by suggestion,229.Myth, defined,123;Depersonification of,133;in Plato,134;in science,134;Subjective and objective factors in,122.Myths, Significance of,119;Variations in,127.Myth-making activity,viii,331.Napoleon,10,66,71,142;his war practice,298.Natural, and human phenomena,299;law, Uniformity of, opposed to dissociation,21;motors, Use of,275.Naville,245.Need of knowing,314.Neglect of details in sensation,20.Nerval, Gérard de,229,324.Nervous overflow,71.New Larnak,309.Newbold,340.Newcomen,270.Newton,58,87,146.Nietzsche,150.Nomina Numina,120,262.Nordau,142.Numerical imagination,207ff.;mysticism,226;series unlimited,207.Objective study of inventors,71.Oddities of inventors,72.Oelzelt-Newin,33,95.Old age, Effect of, on imagination,77.Organic conditions,65.Orientation conditioned by individual organization,48;Personal,270.Owen, Robert,309.Paradox of belief,242.Paralysis by ideas,6.Pascal,146,244.Pasteur,142,143,251.Pathological view of genius,141.Pathology and physiology,74.Perception,15;and conception,184;and imagination,106.Perez, B.,115.Persistence of ideas due to feeling,79.Personification,186;characteristic of aborigines and children,27;source of myth,28.Phalanges, Organization of society into,305.Philippe, J.,17n.Philosophy, a transformation of mystic ideas,233.Phlogiston,248.Physiological states,70.Physiology and pathology,74.Plastic art and mythology,191;imagination,184f.Plato,134,303,309.Platonic ideas,81,253.Play,47,97;Uses of, for man,114.Plotinus,234.Poe,39,206,324.Poet, a workman,190.Poetical imagination, general characters,267;Inspiration in,268;special characters,270.Poetical invention, Stages of,266.Polyideism,87.Polynomy,120.Poncelet,143.Positive minds,318.Powers of nature, Exploitation of271.Practical imagination, Ubiquity of,254.Practice, essential in motor creation,186.Precocity,144;in poetry,145;of mathematicians,147.Pre-Raphaelites,204.Preyer,117.Primitive man,45;and myth,118ff.Principle of unity,250.Progressive stages of imagination,84.Prometheus,269.Provoked revival,94.Pseudo-science,240.Psychic atoms,19;paralysis,6.Psychological regressions,248.Puberty, Influence of, on imagination,76.Pythagoras,226,246.Pythagoreans,134.Qualities, Attribution of, to objects,124.Raphael,145.Rational Metaphysics,234.Reason, Objectivity of,10.Reciprocal working of scientific and practical discoveries,249.Recuperative theory of play,97.Redintegration, Law of,19;Total,36.Regis,54.Religion, Universality of,128.Renaissance,151,175.Reni, Guido,73.Repetition versus creation,5,23.Representation and belief inseparable,110.Representations, Interchange of,323;Number of,322.Revery,38,198,316.Reymond, Du Bois,52.Reynolds,6,325.Roland,138.Roman Republic,151.Romans,125.Romanes,94,95,96.Romantic invention,115.Röntgen,142.Rossini,73.Rousseau,309.Rubens,145.Rüdinger,69.Saint-Simonism,309.Sand, George,52,215.Satanic literature,206.Schelling,253.Schematic images,18,291.Schiller,47,72,73,145.Schopenhauer,37,149,150,253,346.Schubert,145.Schumann,215.Science,45;Conjecture beginning of,245;prescribes conditions and limits to imagination,236;Three movements in growth of,239.Scientific imagination,236ff.Scripture,60.Self-feeling,35.Semi-science,240.Seneca,141.Sensation changed in memory,17.Sensorial insanity,101.Sexual instinct,314.Shakers,307.Shakespeare,143,186.Shelly,56.Social aims in finance,294;invention, limited by the past,308;wants,314.Socialism, Utopian and scientific,310.Societies for special ends,307.Sorrow,34.Special modes of scientific imagining,237.Specific, not general imagination,179.Spencer,47,131,150.Spinoza,110,143,254.Spirits, Belief in,51.Spontaneity,296.Spontaneous revival,94,315.Spontaneous variations,140.Stages of passage from percept to concept,292.Stallo,134.State credit, Law's system of,294.Stewart, Dugald,111.Stigmata, etc., unprecedented in individual's experience,7.Stigmatized individuals,6.Subjective factors,20.Subliminal imagination,57.Sully,21.Summa,254.Summary,330.Superstition and religion,259.Symbolism of Hindoos,202.Taine,18,111,117,129,150,200.Teleological character of will and imagination,10.Thales,134.Titchener,83.Tolstoi,151.Tools,274.Tours, Moreau de,55,78,141.Triptolemus,269.Tropisms,75.Tycho-Brahé,73,246,270.Tylor,99,123,125,131,139.Tyndall,238.Tyre,282.Unconscious, Nature of the,339;physiological theory,340,341.Unconscious cerebration,53;factor,50ff.;factor, not a distinct element in invention,64.Units of exchange,286.Unity, Principle of,79.Universale post rem,84.Utopias, based on author'smilieu,303.Utopian imagination,299.Utopians, indifferent to realization,309.Van Dyck,145.Vaucanson,48.Vedic epoch,129.Vesication,5,7.Vicavakarma,269.Vico,174.Vignoli,128.Vinci, Leonardo da,58,149.Vis a fronteanda tergo,11.Vocation, Change of,172;Choice of,144.Voltaire,150.Voluntary activity analogous to creative imagination,9.Von Baer,210.Von Hartmann,224.Wagner,145.Wahle,62.Wallace,96,99.Wallaschek,99.Watch, Evolution of the,270.Watt, James,66,244,


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