It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

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.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.