150 MIND IN EVOLUTION CHAP. 



A B c. Let this whole be " revived " by A. Then, 

 on the face of it, what A revives is not B and c each 

 separately, but B following on A, and c on B. Certain 

 elements in relation to A are therefore excited. Now 

 let it be as before a condition that these elements should 

 be excited along with A as parts of the same state of 

 consciousness. If they are brought before consciousness 

 as co-present with A, the revived state will conflict 

 with the original in which they were not co-present. 

 If this conflict is to be avoided, they must, as excited, 

 be elements belonging to A and yet, as <c revived " from 

 the original, they are events following on A in a definite 

 relation. These conditions are satisfied by the trans- 

 formation of the percepts B and c into elements of 

 anticipation, which as elements we call ideas b and c. If 

 the anticipation is made quite explicit and holds in itself 

 several elements in definite relations, it is called a judg- 

 ment. It is then the belief in or expectation of the 

 sequence A B c. The unperceived elements in this 

 sequence are known as ideas b and c. The content of 

 these ideas and therefore of the whole judgment is 

 determined by the elements which have been given in 

 experience in their relation to A, and the ideas correspond 

 to these elements of experience. It is in this sense that the 

 whole process is one of revival, but the judgment itself 

 is something new. It is not a repetition of a series of 

 percepts. It is the repetition of a percept plus a reference 

 to things as yet unperceived. The formation of such a 

 judgment depends on the power of holding distinct 

 experiences in a single state of consciousness without 

 prejudice to their distinctness, and involves that distinct 

 reference of a state to something beyond itself which we 

 call an idea. 



Experience then operates, whether in Assimilation or 

 Judgment, by the law, as we may call it, of modified 

 revival. The condition of revival in these cases appears 

 to be that the revived element must enter into the same 

 state of consciousness with that which revives it. 1 And 



1 A state of consciousness has duration, so that though revival takes 

 time, A persists while it is bringing b into consciousness, and so with b and 



