Instinct, 238, 240, 247, 249, 250, 251, 252, 254, 256, 257, 259,
263, 264, 265, 267, 291, 343, 361;
defined, 255, 256;
James’ definition of,
249;
according to external circumstances, 250-252;
according to physiological state of organism, 250;
adjustment of, 250, 252;
constructive, 251;
effective only under normal circumstances 258;
evolutionary origin of, 267
—improbable, 267;
fixity of, 258;
improbability of, 267;
its regulatory principal sense, 254;
not gradually acquired, 263, 264;
not intelligence, 254;
only slightly undefiable, 256;
origin of, 263;
psychic regulation of, 249;
requires no apprenticeship, 256;
teleology of, 249;
telic, 259;
variability of, 250
Instinctive acts, 256
Instruction, 244, 245
Instrumentation, 197
Intellect, 220, 221, 224, 226-230, 339;
active, 220, 221;
activity of, 221;
cognitive, 220, 221;
conscious of its own operations, 226, 227;
indirectly dependent on physiological condition of cortex, 221;
its immaterial nature, 224;
objectively dependent on organic activity of imagination, 221;
not bound to material organ, 226;
not debilitated by intense thinking, 227, 228;
not incapacitated but invigorated by intense thinking, 228;
not regulated by physiological vicissitude, 229;
not subject to metabolic laws, 230;
rooted in a spiritual principle, 227;
superorganic nature of, 227
Intellectual, 228, 229, 230;
activity may reach highest points of concentration and intensity
without involving commensurate fatigue on part of organism, 228
Intelligence, 239-241, 243, 245, 247, 248, 249, 254, 256, 257, 259,
262, 263, 267, 329, 330, 340, 343, 350;
definition of, 239;
autonomous, 259;
a generalizing and abstracting power, 257;
“bestial,” 245, 247, 257;
conscious, 240;
deceptive semblance of, 240, 241;
Divine, 249;
etymology of, 239;
finite, 249;
genuine, 240, 241;
infinite, 248, 249;
incapable of being evolved from matter, 267;
inherent, 249, 256, 259, 267;
of worker bees, 267;
subjective or inherent, 248, 249;
used to denote power of profiting by experience, 239, 240
Intensity, 227, 230;
does not increase in same proportion as intensity of stimulus, 227;
may reach maximum with involving corresponding fatigue, 230;
of thought does not follow fluctuations of neural metabolism, 230
Interactionism, 206
Interaction, three types of, 175
Interglacial period, 329;
last, 329
Intergradation, 87
Intergradence, 84-87;
may indicate hybridism, 84, 85;
no argument for common ancestry, 84-86;
of mutants genetically independent, 85, 86
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