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however apparently separate and disparate our 

 bodies may seem to be. It is life and feeling, not 

 action, which really distinguish the individual 

 from his environment, at least from his material 

 dynamic environment. Be it noted that what is 

 required is not an explanation of how we transcend 

 Experience. That by no effort can we ever do in 

 Knowledge. All we are required to explain is 

 how we transcend our Thought and our Sensibility. 

 The answer is : Our Experience begins in action, and 

 it begins therefore in a sphere which is beyond the 

 mere subjective Consciousness, and yet is organically 

 one with the organs of Cognition and Feeling. 

 It is only by a visual fiction that we come to 



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regard our active selves as distinct from the dynamic 

 system. We cannot, in fact, shake off the bonds 

 of corporeality, of gravity, of all the various re- 

 straints of our organic activity. 



Relatively, however, the cerebral activity of 

 Thought is liberated from the stresses of the dy- 

 namic environment ; hence the apparent freedom 

 and independence, under certain conditions, of 

 Thought, Imagination, and Volition. 



A great difficulty in realising this view of Ex- 

 perience is to be found in the apparent Solidity and 

 Inertia of material bodies. Sensible experiences 

 group themselves round these constancies. But 

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