ging in an old man,
a little girl, and a waterfall.

(d) Design the street plan for an ideal small town, built on
both sides of a small river.

9. Show how empathy might make us prefer a symmetrical building to
one that is lop-sided.

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REFERENCES

On the imagination and play of children, see Norsworthy and Whitley's
_Psychology of Childhood_, 1918, Chapters IX and XII.

For Freud's views regarding dreams, see his _Interpretation of
Dreams_, translated by Brill, 1913.

For a view which, though psychoanalytical, diverges somewhat from that
of Freud, see Maurice Nicoll, _Dream Psychology_, 1917; also C. W.
Kimmins, _Children's Dreams_, 1920.

For studies of play, see Edward S. Robinson, "The Compensatory
Function of Make-Believe Play", in the _Psychological Review_ for
1920, Vol. 27, pp. 429-439; also M. J. Reaney, _The Psychology of the
Organized Group Game_, 1916.

On invention, see Josiah Royce, "The Psychology of Invention", in the
_Psychological Review_ for 1898, Vol. 5, pp. 113-144; also F. W.
Taussig's _Inventors and Money-Makers_, 1915.

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CHAPTER XX

WILL

PLANNED ACTION, ACTION IN SPITE OF INTERNAL CONFLICT,
AND ACTION AGAINST EXTERNAL OBSTRUCTION

If the psychologist were required to begin his chapter on the will
with a clean-cut definition, he would be puzzled what to say. He might
refer to the old division of the mind into the "three great faculties"
of intellect, feeling, and will, but would be in duty bound to add at
once that this "tripartite division" is now regarded as rather
useless, if not misleading. It is misleading if it leads us to
associate will exclusively with motor action, for we also have
voluntary attention and voluntary control in reasoning and inventing,
and we have involuntary motor reactions. "Will" seems not to be any
special kind of response, but rather to refer to certain relationships
in which a response may stand to other responses--but this is
certainly too vague a definition to be of use.

"Will" is not precisely a psychological term, anyway, but is a term of
common speech which need not refer to any psychological unit. In
common speech it has various and conflicting meanings. "Since you urge
me", one may say, "I _will_ do this, though much against my _will_."
Let the dictionary define such words. What psychology should do with
them is simply to take them as a mining prospector takes an
outcropping of ore: as an indication