Consciousness is found chiefly in the subjective form of
intellectual feelings, and «
intellectual feelings, in their primary function, are concentration of attention
involving increase of importance» (PR 416).
Having thus neutralized the partialities of his emotional nature, he proceeds with a certain natural and enforced erectness of mental attitude to the investigation, knowing well that some of his
intellectual children will die before maturity, yet
feeling that several of them may survive the results of final investigation, since it is often the outcome of inquiry that several causes are found to be
involved instead of a single one.