Strange As It May Sound, The Power

The Presentations And Conceptions Of The Average Man Of The World Are Formed And Dominated, Not By The Full And Pure Desire For Knowledge As An End In Itself, But By The Struggle To Adapt Himself Favourably To The Conditions Of Life.

The Fact Is, Every Thinker, Every Philosopher, The Moment He Is Forced To Abandon His One-sided Intellectual Occupation By Practical Necessity, Immediately Returns To The General Point Of View Of Mankind.

Not Bodies Produce Sensations, But Element-complexes (sensation-complexes) Constitute The Bodies. When The Physicist Considers The Bodies As The Permanent Reality, The 'elements' As The Transient Appearance, He Does Not Realise That All 'bodies' Are Only Mental Symbols For Element-complexes (sensation-complexes).

The History Of The Development Of Mechanics Is Quite Indispensable To A Full Comprehension Of The Science In Its Present Condition. It Also Affords A Simple And Instructive Example Or The Processes By Which Natural Science Generally Is Developed.

Ordinarily Pleasure And Pain Are Regarded As Different From Sensations.