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weft of this original nature in a tapestry pattern, more 

 or less colorful, more or less comely, more or less 

 exceptional and inimitable, more or less noble. 



The experiences which have been instrumental in 

 the elaboration of these patterns of bodily organiza- 

 tion are not preserved as such in the body any more 

 than the seismographer's experience of earthquakes 

 is preserved as such in his seismograph; but they have 

 established the organization and **set" of the body so 

 that the individual reacts to new situations in modes 

 determined in part by the structural patterns thus 

 established. 



Now in dreams, fantasies, and "free associations" 

 of ideas these structural or relatively static patterns 

 of organization are quickened, perhaps by a passing 

 and unobserved sensory excitation, perhaps by some 

 vascular, endocrine, or other internal change, and 

 being free from the control and inhibitions of our 

 formalized or logical intellectual norms they may fol- 

 low old lines of forgotten experience, as when the de- 

 sired name pops unannounced into the mind, or they 

 may recombine in new arrangements never actually 

 experienced, as in invention. 



These trains of thought follow "of themselves" as 

 they do, not because we have unconscious minds 

 (whatever that might mean) nor because we have 

 within us a beneficent "brownie" or a malicious 

 demon (say a Freudian "wish"), but because our 

 nervous systems have been so altered structurally by 



