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even dismissed as unrealities from the mental 

 products of a more structural nature. They 

 are, however, the prime elements in the broader 

 life displaced by struggle, and no analysis of 

 mental products is possible if it does not begin 

 with them. Memory and visualization are thus 

 at opposite poles of thought. Memory acts 

 through structure and increases in clearness 

 as structure grows in complexity and in the 

 definiteness of its action. Visualization is 

 the acme of isolation. Interrupt complexity, 

 decrease the number of complementary rela- 

 tions, reduce life to its simplest terms, and vis- 

 ualization becomes more intense at each step. 

 It is as simple and vivid as memory is complex 

 and clear. Thought varies between these two 

 poles and has ingredients from both of them. 

 As it rises in intensity, turning toward the 

 complement of the real and present, it becomes 

 ideal, but when it falls in intensity, settling 

 back on the present and real, it becomes 

 grooved in structure as memory. Devolution 

 and growth are thus both represented in 

 thought, and by their relative force fix the 

 direction of its currents. 



