ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE HUMAN MIND
James Mill
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All editions of this text were published in two volumes. This file has combined them. The only consequential change to the original material is that the Contents pages for Volume 2 are repeated immediately after the Contents of Volume 1. Texts have been kindly provided by the Internet Archive. For Volume 1 the source mainly used was analysisofthephe00milluoft and for Volume 2, analysisofpheno02mill.
FootnotesJames Mill’s text had a few footnotes, indicated by single asterisks. His later commentators’ work was printed as footnotes, numbered consecutively through each volume (though there is no note 36 in volume 1), and attributed by an initial (or “Editor’s note”) at the end. James Mill’s notes are here recorded as 1*, 2*, etc. John Stuart Mill made one note in this style, 7* in volume 1. This has not been renumbered, but it has been rendered in J.S. Mill’s colour. Text due to contributors other than James Mill is marked by different text colours: blue for Bain, fuchsia for Findlater, green for Grote, and maroon for J.S. Mill. There are footnotes in Grote’s main footnote, and in a couple of other footnotes, marked as in the original. All footnotes are now placed after the paragraph in which they occur.
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The Commentators' contentSince a large part of the interest of this book relates to the commentaries provided by J.S. Mill and his colleagues, and since no guide is given to them in the actual Table of Contents, a simple list of the more important comments is subjoined (items in bold are more substantial contributions) with the main sections of the original book indicated:
| Author | Topic | Page/Note |
| Volume 1 | ||
| Author | INTRODUCTION | 1 |
| Author | CHAPTER I. Sensation | 2 |
| Bain | muscular feelings and digestive sensibility | note 1 |
| Author | SECTION 1. Smell | 7 |
| Bain | arranging the senses | note 2 |
| Mill | the meaning of ‘smell’ | note 3 |
| Author | SECTION 2. Hearing | 16 |
| Mill | the meaning of ‘hearing’ | note 4 |
| Author | SECTION 3. Sight | 21 |
| Mill | the meaning of ‘sight’ | note 5 |
| Mill | the meaning of ‘vision’ | note 6 |
| Author | SECTION 4. Taste | 25 |
| Mill | some physiologists’ view of taste | note 7 |
| Mill | the meaning of ‘taste’ | note 8 |
| Author | SECTION 5. Touch | 28 |
| Bain | touch | note 9 |
| Bain | the subjectivity of the sensations of hot and cold | note 10 |
| Mill | the meaning of ’touch’ | note 11 |
| Bain | the sense of touch | note 12 |
| Author | SECTION 6. Sensations of Disorganization, etc. | 37 |
| Mill | the meaning of ‘itching’ | note 13 |
| Bain | organic sensibilities | note 14 |
| Author | SECTION 7. Muscular Sensations, etc. | 40 |
| Author | SECTION 8. Sensations in the Alimentary Canal | 45 |
| Bain | pleasure of opium or alcohol not a matter of association | note 16 |
| Bain | digestion and not noticing sensations | note 17 |
| Author | CHAPTER II. Ideas | 51 |
| Bain | discrimination and retentiveness | note 18 |
| Mill | the idea of resistance | note 19 |
| Bain | feelings of muscular action, not primarily a matter of Will | note 20 |
| Bain | hunger and thirst | note 21 |
| Mill | meaning of ‘indigestion,’ ‘hunger,’ ‘thirst’ | note 22 |
| Bain | sensation and idea compared | note 23 |
| Mill | can we have ideas of ideas? ideas of historical or fictional people | note 24 |
| Author | CHAPTER III. The Association of Ideas | 70 |
| Bain | possibility of synchronous sensations | note 25 |
| Bain | a limitation to association, need for unique link | note 26 |
| Bain | difference between transient and permanent recollections | note 27 |
| Mill | vividness | note 28 |
| Bain | sight | note 29 |
| Mill | exposition of ‘ideas which it is not in our power to combine’ | note 30 |
| Bain | emotional reactions more than association | note 31 |
| Mill | ‘laws of obliviscence’ | note 32 |
| Bain | visual sensations usually overlooked | note 33 |
| Mill | accounts of unnoticed feelings | note 34 |
| Mill | attempted reduction of association by resemblance to association by contiguity | note 35 |
| Bain | association of ideas | note 38 |
| Mill | rejecting contrast as a principle of association | note 39 |
| Author | CHAPTER IV. Naming | 127 |
| Author | SECTION 1. Nouns Substantive | 134 |
| Findlater | origin of names of objects | note 41 |
| Mill | utility of names of classes | note 42 |
| Mill | ‘heat’ etc. as names only of sensations not of ideas | note 43 |
| Mill | Locke’s ‘mixed modes’ | note 44 |
| Author | SECTION 2. Nouns Adjective | 134 |
| Mill | class names and utility of adjectives | note 45 |
| Author | SECTION 3. Verbs | 151 |
| Mill | omission of predication among functions of general names | note 46 |
| Mill | verbs | note 47 |
| Author | SECTION 4. Predication | 159 |
| Mill | predication | note 48 |
| Mill | further remark on predication | note 49 |
| Mill | differentia, proprium and accidens | note 50 |
| Mill | predication | note 51 |
| Findlater | predication in non-Indo-European languages | note 53 |
| Mill | predication and existence-claims | note 54 |
| Mill | absence of belief in author’s account of predication | note 55 |
| Mill | criticism of author’s account of syllogisms | note 57 |
| Mill | names of names, genus and species | note 58 |
| Author | SECTION 5. Pronouns | 194 |
| Findlater | relative and demonstrative pronouns | note 59 |
| Author | SECTION 6. Adverbs | 199 |
| Mill | adverbial modification | note 60 |
| Author | SECTION 7. Prepositions | 201 |
| Findlater | etymology of prepositions | note 61 |
| Author | SECTION 8. Conjunctions | 212 |
| Findlater | conjunctions | note 62 |
| Findlater | ‘but’ | note 63 |
| Findlater | etymology of ‘if’ | note 64 |
| Findlater | etymology of ‘because’ | note 65 |
| Author | CHAPTER V. Consciousness | 223 |
| Bain | consciousness | note 74 |
| Mill | consciousness | note 75 |
| Author | CHAPTER VI. Conception | 233 |
| Mill | conceptions/general ideas | note 76 |
| Author | CHAPTER VII. Imagination | 238 |
| Bain | the imagination | note 77 |
| Author | CHAPTER VIII. Classification | 247 |
| Mill | utility of class names | note 78 |
| Grote | Greek views of classification and abstraction | note 79 |
| Mill | classification | note 80 |
| Author | CHAPTER IX. Abstraction | 294 |
| Mill | general names | note 81 |
| Mill | rejecting the author’s use of ‘connote’ | note 82 |
| Mill | abstract names | note 83 |
| Findlater | etymology of abstract names | note 86 |
| Author | CHAPTER X. Memory | 318 |
| Bain | mention of compound association | note 88 |
| Mill | need for belief as a component of memory | note 91 |
| Bain | the cessation of sensations | note 93 |
| Mill | difference between memory and imagination | note 94 |
| Author | CHAPTER XI. Belief | 341 |
| Mill | belief as constituent of memory and judgment | note 95 |
| Mill | different uses of ‘belief’ | note 97 |
| Mill | why people do not seek a cause for a first cause | note 100 |
| Mill | inseparable associations | note 102 |
| Bain | belief in the uniformity of nature | note 103 |
| Bain | qualification of the author’s remark about sight | note 104 |
| Bain | terror and belief | note 105 |
| Bain | testimony | note 106 |
| Bain | belief | note 107 |
| Mill | belief | note 108 |
| Author | CHAPTER XII. Ratiocination | 424 |
| Mill | reasoning | note 109 |
| Author | CHAPTER XIII. Evidence | 428 |
| Mill | evidence | note 110 |
| Mill | belief in an external world | Appendix |
| Volume 2 | ||
| Author | CHAPTER XIV. Some Names which require a particular Explanation | 1 |
| Author | SECTION 1. Names of Names | 3 |
| Mill | names of names | note 2 |
| Author | SECTION 2. Relative Terms | 6 |
| Mill | relations | note 3 |
| Bain | consciousness requiring change, relative names | note 4 |
| Bain | similarity and difference | note 5 |
| Mill | similarity | note 6 |
| Mill | succession, antecedent and consequent | note 7 |
| Mill | lines, geometrical and physical, | note 8 |
| Bain | sight and space | note 9 |
| Bain | the feeling of resistance | note 10 |
| Mill | casual sequences | note 12 |
| Mill | the meaning of relative names | note 13 |
| Mill | quantity | note 14 |
| Mill | quality | note 15 |
| Mill | objects | note 16 |
| Mill | more and less | note 17 |
| Mill | why the succession of ideas is not the same in all people, simultaneous ideas and memory | note 18 |
| Author | Abstract Relative Terms | 72 |
| Mill | abstract relative terms | note 19 |
| Mill | causation not connoting present time | note 20 |
| Mill | ‘relative’ and ‘related’ | note 21 |
| Author | SECTION 3. Numbers | 89 |
| Mill | connotation and denotation of number words | note 22 |
| Grote | Greek view of number | note 23 |
| Author | SECTION 4. Privative Terms | 99 |
| Mill | author’s use of ‘privative’ | note 24 |
| Mill | ‘silence’ ‘nothing’ | note 25 |
| Mill | space | note 26 |
| Mill | infinity | note 27 |
| Author | SECTION 5. Time | 116 |
| Mill | time | note 29 |
| Grote | Aristotle on time | note 30 |
| Author | SECTION 6. Motion | 142 |
| Bain | resistance, motion, etc. | note 31 |
| Mill | extensive quotation from Herbert Spencer on feelings of motion and extension | note 32 |
| Author | SECTION 7. Identity | 164 |
| Mill | personal identity | note 33 |
| Author | CHAPTER XV. Reflection | 176 |
| Mill | attention as a separate feature | note 34 |
| Author | CHAPTER XVI. The Distinction between the Intellectual and Active Powers etc. | 181 |
| Bain | need for separate consideration of emotion | note 35 |
| Author | CHAPTER XVII. Pleasurable and Painful Sensations | 184 |
| Mill | nature of pleasurable sensations | note 36 |
| Author | CHAPTER XVIII. Causes of the Pleasurable and Painful Sensations | 187 |
| Author | CHAPTER XIX. Ideas of the Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, and of the Causes of them | 189 |
| Mill | desire and aversion | note 37 |
| Author | CHAPTER XX. The Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, contemplated as passed, or future | 196 |
| Mill | expectation | note 38 |
| Mill | ‘hope’ and ‘fear’ | note 39 |
| Author | CHAPTER XXI. The Causes of Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, contemplated as passed, or future | 201 |
| Author | SECTION 1. The immediate Causes of Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, etc. | 201 |
| Mill | a problem for author’s account of memory and expectation | note 40 |
| Bain | distinction between aversion and fear | note 41 |
| Author | SECTION 2. The Remote Causes of Pleasurable and Painful Sensations etc. | 206 |
| Mill | notion that there are no ideas without momentary belief in the existence of their objects | note 42 |
| Mill | pains or pleasures of others | note 43 |
| Bain | emotions and the tender feeling | note 44 |
| Mill | author’s dealings with the emotions | note 45 |
| Mill | pleasure in music | note 46 |
| Mill | pleasure in colours | note 47 |
| Mill | beauty and sublimity (with reference to Ruskin) | note 48 |
| Author | CHAPTER XXII. Motives | 256 |
| Author | SECTION 1. Pleasurable or Painful States, etc. | 256 |
| Mill | motives, quotation from another work of the author on motives | note 49 |
| Author | SECTION 2. Causes of our Pleasurable and Painful States, etc. | 265 |
| Mill | what intensifies patriotic feelings | note 50 |
| Author | CHAPTER XXIII. The Acts of our Fellow-creatures, etc. | 280 |
| Bain | prudence and courage | note 52 |
| Bain | checks to beneficence | note 53 |
| Mill | posthumous fame | note 54 |
| Mill | a motive for suicide | note 55 |
| Mill | ‘praiseworthy’ as deserving praise, not merely likely to obtain praise | note 56 |
| Bain | incompleteness of author’s account of the moral sentiment | note 57 |
| Mill | moral sentiments, with quotation from another work by the author; duty and punishment | note 58 |
| Author | CHAPTER XXIV. The Will | 327 |
| Mill | internal bodily actions | note 59 |
| Bain | winking under threat of a blow to the eyes | note 60 |
| Bain | ‘fixed ideas’ | note 61 |
| Bain | shedding tears or laughing | note 62 |
| Mill | the will | note 63 |
| Bain | trying to remember | note 64 |
| Bain | dreams | note 65 |
| Mill | attention | note 66 |
| Mill | a gap in author’s account of voluntary action | note 67 |
| Bain | the will | note 68 |
| Author | CHAPTER XXV. Intention | 396 |
| Mill | intention | note 69 |