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cognition, affection and conation. He is concerned with 

 these because his work is to analyse the behaviour of 

 living things : their purposive striving to achieve an end. 

 Cognition involves the part played by the processes 

 of apperception and association, which link both the 

 logical relations between objects and the historical 

 sequence of events. I appoint to my small boys definite 

 'boundaries' on the sea-beach within which they 

 may play at will without special permission from any 

 grown-up. As I write, I see from my window one of 

 them scrambling along a sea-wall towards a martello 

 tower, outside these boundaries. The observation links 

 itself with the fact that the tide is in, and the water deep. 

 Other apperception-masses are correlated with this. I 

 know that he can hardly swim, and that if he fell off the 

 wall he would be drowned. I know that he is disobeying 

 orders, for which the penalty is deprivation of his 

 'boundaries' for twenty-four hours, with consequent 

 imprisonment in the house except when a grown-up 

 wants to go out. I, further, see that nurse is on the 

 beach with the baby, and I wonder if she has given the 

 boy permission to go onto the sea-wall. I know that she . 

 cannot swim, and consequently, that her presence is not 

 much of a safeguard. And so on and so on. Appercep- 

 tion mass calls to associated apperception mass across 

 the deeps of my mind, through logical connection (climb- 

 fall ; water-drown ; etc.) and sequence association (com- 

 mand disobedience punishment similar occurrences 

 in the past; swimming swimming lessons progress 

 over-fearlessness, etc.). These trains of cognitive pro- 

 cess give rise to, or at least furnish the immediate 

 stimulus for, a conative impulse through the emotion or 

 affection of anxiety. I decide to lean out of the window 

 and shout to him to ask whether he has nurse's permis- 

 sion to be there. This I do, influencing his mind and 

 setting in motion another cycle of cognition, affection 



