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broke away from its companions, and, itself persisting, surrounded 

 itself with such new attributes as make up the notions of a " railroad 

 king," of a rising and falling stock-market, and the like. 



The gradual passage from Complete Contiguous to Similar Associ- 



ation through what we have called Partial Association may be sym- 

 bolized by diagrams. Fig, 2 is Pure Contiguous, Fig, 3 is Mixed, and 

 Fig. 4 Similar, Association. A in each is the passing, B the coming 

 thought. In " Contiguous," all parts of A are equally operative iu 



calling up B. In " Mixed," most parts of A are inert. The part M 

 alone breaks out and awakens B, In " Similar," the focalized part M 

 is much smaller than in the previous case, and after awakening its 



new set of associates, instead of fading out itself, it continues persis- 

 tently active along with them, forming an identical part in the two 

 ideas, and making these, />ro tanto, resemble each other. 



