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reason that every single element of it must be said to 

 influence the next, and to have been influenced by the 

 preceding one. We now shall get a result of greater 

 importance, if, at this point of the analysis, we take 

 advantage of the different character of the constituents of 

 our process with regard to spatiality. Only the first and 

 the last phenomenon of our process were spatial ones, what 

 there was between them was only in time but was not 

 objectified in space. Thence it follows that spatial 

 phenomena may be univocally connected by phenomena 

 which are not spatial ; the latter forming a group by 

 themselves. 



What we have described and considered here is practically 

 the view taken in common life, with the only exception that 

 common life regards spatial phenomena as absolute realities, 

 and not only as realities to the Ego. 



Science now will tell us that our analysis has been very 

 incomplete, that we have regarded our body not as an 

 organism, but as something that is extremely simple. 



j3. THE SAME CASE IN A SCIENTIFIC FORM 



Let us then try to complete scientifically our study of 

 the phenomena which are immediately given to me during 

 my acting ; let us consider my body as an organism playing 

 its specific part in this particular series of phenomena as a 

 consequence of its organisation ; but at the same time let 

 us never forget that we are analysing at present a certain 

 series of phenomena presented to my consciousness, to my 

 Ego, and nothing else. 



