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itself create. The mental struggle for comple- 

 mentary ideas is visualization. It might be 

 called the strain of an interrupted rhythm. 

 Ideals are the result of a struggle for mental 

 regeneration, and they appear when a break 

 in continuity arouses an impulse to establish 

 physical complements. 



Visualization and memory are now seen to 

 represent opposing tendencies. Wherever there 

 is growth there is memory: visualization 

 comes with disruption and tendencies toward 

 simplicity. The isolation of parts naturally 

 rhythmic creates a sudden burst of activity, 

 and this intensifies mental life. Memory is 

 dimmed and consciousness projects pictures of 

 lost complementary relations. Whenever there 

 is a break in growth, the current of thought 

 flows on some absent relation, and then the 

 thought becomes fancy and not fact. These 

 breaks come through the emotions, and they 

 represent the discordant elements that disturb 

 growth and throw life back into simpler forms. 



The three elementary mental states coincide 

 with three physical conditions. Memory ac- 

 companies bilateral growth ; emotion arises 



