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directed towards the construction of the lamp, which 

 I compare with that of other lamps already known to me. 

 This consideration ends in the will to move a certain 

 screw of the lamp. I see and feel my hand touching 

 and moving the screw ; the smoking of the optical 

 lamp ends. 



These are the most general lines of the process ; it 

 is worth while to mark them in a more detailed fashion. 

 My seeing the smoking lamp, to be quite accurate, is 

 first followed by the remembrance of what a lamp's 

 smoking is ; then comes the associative remembrance that 

 the consequences of its smoking are very unpleasant ; 

 the will arises to stop smoking ; this recalls past cases 

 of such a stopping, and the recollection of them recalls 

 previous ways of doing so ; that calls my attention to the 

 construction of the lamp ; this is found to be different 

 from known constructions but similar to them ; a certain 

 point of similarity relating to the means of moving the 

 wick is noticed ; the specific will arises to perform the 

 movement ; my hand is felt and seen moving the screw 

 in question; the smoking lamp is seen not to smoke 

 any more. 



The whole of a special excerpt from given reality in 

 which " I myself ' am playing a part has been described 

 here as a continuous series. All of its constituents are 

 phenomena presented to my conscious Ego. All of them 

 follow each other in order of time with regard to their 

 originating, though the amount of their velocity in following 

 each other may vary to a great extent. Only a few of the 

 constituents are " spatial." By saying that all of the 

 constituents follow each other in order of time it is not 



