CHAPTER VIII 



VISUALIZATION 



THE popular concept of the mind emphasizes 

 the conditions of survival instead of those of 

 life. The outer world, from which sensations 

 come, gains its importance through the strug- 

 gles for its possession. As these struggles 

 become more intense, consciousness is more 

 fully centred on outer events, until, in the end, 

 the sensations by which we know such events 

 seem the sole content of the mind. Conscious- 

 ness, then, appears to begin with the quality 

 which gives superiority in struggle ; but life 

 antedates this struggle and its elements must 

 in some way have already existed in the simple 

 conditions upon which life depends. Struggle 

 creates nothing; it only gives clearness and 

 value to what had another origin. Nor is it an 

 advance to analyze the contents of conscious- 

 ness into simpler elements of a like kind, if 

 progress is to be made, let us find the physical 



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