VIII. Analogy as a phase in mental evolution; the transition from superstition to science; the evolution of the race and of the individual; analogy, the serious thought habit of primitive man, becomes in civilization a source of amusement; conclusion 269 THE MIND'S EYE I. The nature of perception; its subjective and objective factors 275 II. Illustrations of the effects of the subjective factor 279 III. Perception as modified by attention and by the mental concept; illustrations; equivocal drawings 282 IV. The function of the mind's eye 294 MENTAL PREPOSSESSION AND INERTIA I. The nature of prepossession; pedagogical illustrations 296 II. Illustration derived from the experience of the Census Bureau 301 III. Psychological interpretation 304 A STUDY OF INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENTS I. Unconscious activities 307 II. Muscle-reading; method of recording involuntary movements 308 III. Illustrations and description of records of involuntary movements 312 IV. Interpretation and analysis of records of involuntary movements 321 V. Influence of the nature of the object of attention upon involuntary movements 330 VI. Other forms of involuntary indications; "involuntary whispering;" the subconscious 334 THE DREAMS OF THE BLIND I. The rôle of vision in mental life 337 II. The retention of vision in dreams as dependent upon the age of the loss of sight; the "critical period;" the investigation of Heermann in 1838; the status as to "dream-vision" of the partially blind 340 III. Corroborations of the above results by other evidence; the dreams of the blind-deaf; dreams of Laura Bridgman; Helen Keller's account of her dream-life; interpretations 345 IV. Distinctions in dream-life of incidents experienced during the period of sight from those of the blindness period; the imagination of the blind; illustrations of their dreams 360 V. Résumé 369 INDEX 371 FACT AND FABLE IN PSYCHOLOGY THE MODERN OCCULT I