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uses, note how as we have a feeUng-Sense for our folk-Place, and a 

 sensed- Feeling for our place- Folk, we have experienced-Sense in our 

 work- Place: thus sailor and landsman are each experienced and 

 observant in his own work and way, but that alone. Again recall 

 how in first practical lessons, say at piano, we were first called to 

 sense-Experience, to observe not to strike the wrong keys : by and by 

 we had Experience enough to get through our piece, though too 

 mechanically; while the teacher strove by example to deepen this 

 to feeling-Experience : so here is the traditional and normal develop- 

 ment, of prentice, journeyman, and master. Again, where shall we 

 look for more experienced-Feeling than among work-Folk at their 

 normal best; since they have through life fully laboured and suffered, 

 more than we, yet not without life's joys as well. Our strict and 

 formal diagram is thus not only synthetic and comparative; it is 

 organic and human throughout. Yet notice that our psychology so 

 far seems essentially determined by the bio-social conditions of its 

 first outline, without psychology. It is something to have any 

 psychology at all, and still more this in intimate relation with this 

 elemental organic and social life : for we are thus freed from an 

 aps3^chic biology, geography, economics, and anthropology, from the 

 outset. Be it noted that this simple psychology seems, at first at least, 

 what Huxley caUed "epiphenomenal"; yet it differs from this, and 

 from mere parallelism in the measure in which each of these psycho- 

 logic elements is reacting more or less upon its associated biologic 

 or social factor. Yet after all, this simple psychology seems to have 

 but secondary status, in which bodily conditions and functionings 

 have the major part; for what answer has it to the "Lange- James" 

 theory; that we are sorry because we weep, and merry because we 

 laugh? If so, our psychology is essentially subordinate: it is Bio- 

 psychosis, mere Body-mind; where shall we look for Psycho-biosis, 

 Mind-body? Are we to be shut up, or driven back to the simple 

 psychology of Loeb, with its tropisms? In a word, is our psychology 

 simply physiological after all ? 



So far then this beginning; as yet only for Pwf and Efo. How shall 

 we express the other and more active side, of Fwp and Ofe ? At first 

 by simple mirror-reversal, from left hand to right ; and now upwards 

 our two folded halves are thus symmetric, to their vertical co- 

 ordinate. 



Notice, however, as we set about reading this simple diagram, 

 previously explained, that the order for this is reversed; for Fwp 

 and Ofe, the more fully living and active side of our dual life-process, 

 now reads from Folk and Organism, and thus upwards, and to the 

 right. Active Folk react more fully on modifying their place, and 

 a.ctive Organism more actively on its environment. And both are 

 distinctly moved by Feeling. Their work or functioning is improved 

 by memory-retained and nerve-cell-registered experience, con- 



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