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and work: but this would naturally first appear on the active side; 

 especially so in human life, in which work proper begins so late. 

 For present purpose, however, any externally applied organic 

 activity may be considered work, as by the physicist. Even the 

 senses of the active organism are aroused and trained by attention 

 to the environment, for food, etc., more than by passive acceptance 

 of impressions; and so for its experience from active work, and its 

 feelings, in higher forms especially, from active contact with its 

 kind ; 3- et also in hunger, in the avoidance of danger, etc. So all this 

 active side of life is training and developing the passive side, in its 

 growth more efficient in turn. All this we can now express by 

 developing our diagram further, say with italic lettering for the 

 active process. Thus: 



Here, too, we have added accents, to express the cumulative 

 organic development throughout the life-process; with which we 

 must bear in mind also the psychic accompaniment, as on the active 

 side the more important of the two, yet being advanced upon the 

 passive also. The gradual development of our diagram is thus 

 expressing that of our psychology. Hence, instead of reducing our 

 first half-diagram, Efo or Pwf, to its barest, we have in practice, 

 as above pointed out, to develop and enrich each and all its six 

 elements from the other and active side, as this advances in the 

 above succession. 



So strong has been the tradition of the older analytical psychology, 

 be this of "faculties" or "association", or in later forms, that the 

 regular squares of these diagrams may be misunderstood, as but 

 analytic also. Yet these lines are not walls of separation, but more 

 like the parallels and meridians of the globe, which in no way mar 

 its continuity, but make our sphere more intelligible, and compre- 

 hensible from our various points of view, and lives of course. Thus 

 we do not think of sense or sensation apart, but as a necessary and 

 inseparable element of its chord of life, giving and taking from the 

 others; and so again for the other chords and elements of the four- 

 fold interaction of Acts and Facts with Thoughts and Deeds, here 

 suggested. All this life-process, despite its many aspects, has the 

 simplicity (yet complexity) of unity in Life — and thus much like a 

 dual pendulum-swing or an inspiration and expiration: yet making 

 up the full succession of heart-beats and life-beats, within and 

 throughout the long and changing succession of the rhythmic, yet 

 ever varied, development, miaturity, and decline of life, with its 

 changes, alike in internal adjustments and outward adaptations. 



LOGIC AND TECHNIQUE OF LIFE-GRAPHS.- If we seek, as in 

 science we must, to clarify our conceptions to the utmost, and thus 



