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perceptions and thoughts are critically compared and 

 systematically interrelated. 



The distinguishing feature of this stage is the explicit 

 recognition of the conditions operating on or in the mind 

 itself, the entrance among the data to be correlated of the 

 correlating processes or activities. It is a self-conscious 

 correlation, a correlation of methods and result, or, briefly, 

 of ultimate principles. If, once again, we conceive this 

 critical movement carried through it would analyse our 

 mental world down to its elements, and our purposes to 

 the ultimate sources of their value, and it would bring them 

 together into a working whole of rational comprehension 

 and purposive activity. It would correlate the system of 

 racial experience with the ultimate ends of racial develop- 

 ment. It would thus cover the entire sphere of human 

 life, bringing its past and future within the compass of a 

 single synthesis. This would, in the first place, be effected 

 by consciousness piecemeal, but in its completeness it 

 would also come within the scope of reference of con- 

 sciousness. The development of mind would come within 

 the knowledge of mind, and it may be inferred in some 

 degree within the control of mind. 



With regard to the measure of this control more will 

 have to be said. But we have first to justify our summary 

 account of the two last phases here distinguished. This 

 will be the task of the remaining chapters of this part. 

 We have to begin with the building up of a partial and 

 uncritical order of thought by the social mind. This will 

 occupy the following chapter. We have then to deal with 

 the work of reconstruction, which in its various phases will 

 occupy Chapter VII. to X. Here we have briefly indi- 

 cated the nature of these phases in order to take a summary 

 view of the movement of mind as a whole. The latest 

 phase described completes, it will be seen, that process of 

 correlation which we have traced from its beginnings by 

 bringing within the circle of consciousness all the factors 

 that work upon consciousness. Throughout the develop- 

 ment there has been stage by stage a change of orientation, 

 engendered by the entry into the field of conscious intelli- 

 gence of something that before affected the mind without 



