Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.