Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.