80 TWO THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE 



Thought and Action are in common speech con- 

 trasted, and the distinction expresses an essential 

 truth. But when we seek to say further that both 

 \of these are Activities, we are stating another truth 

 in terms which are hardly consistent with the pre- 

 viously contrasted distinction. It might be better 

 if Action and Active could be applied generally to 

 both and if the term exertion could be substituted 

 for Action in describing the forms of activity which 

 we denominate motor. To that suggestion, however, 

 there are also serious objections. The words de- 

 rived from ago have historically a special applica- 

 tion to the exertional and dynamic. We leave the 

 question to our readers as one of which it is of con- 

 siderable importance to find a satisfactory solution. 



In the foregoing pages our object has been to 

 illustrate the erroneous conceptions by which the 

 theory of human cognition has been obscured and 

 to explain briefly what we conceive to be the true 

 solution. The argument in support of the doctrine 

 here explained has been more fully presented by 

 the present writer in an essay entitled The Dynamic 

 *~ Foundation of Knowledge, to which the reader who 

 desires to study the question further must now be 

 referred. 



