A Pluralistic Universe · William James
LECTURE V
Note 1, page 182.--Royce: _The Spirit of Modern Philosophy_, p. 379. Note 2, page 184.--_The World and the Individual_, vol. ii, pp. 58-62. Note 3, page 190.--I hold to it still as the best description of an enormous number of our higher fields of consciousness. They demonstrably do not _contain_ the lower states that know the same objects. Of other fields, however this is not so true; so, in the _Psychological Review_ for 1895, vol. ii, p. 105 (see especially pp. 119-120), I frankly withdrew, in principle, my former objection to talking of fields of consciousness being made of simpler 'parts,' leaving the facts to decide the question in each special case. Note 4, page 194.--I abstract from the consciousness attached to the whole itself, if such consciousness be there.
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