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unreality of a "fund." We wish to feel our whole being move 

 with nature, to comprehend many motions at once, to follow many 

 themes simultaneously. The problem of reasoning is the problem 

 of clear ideas. The success of the static method lay in the fact 

 that it isolated impressions so that they were clear. Evidently the 

 requisite of distinct impressions at the self-conscious center 1 is 

 inexorable. The problem, therefore, is that of satisfying the con- 

 dition of motion without destroying the clearness of the mental 

 picture. There is but one conceivable means by which this result 

 can be accomplished, and that is so to train the mind that it may 

 receive successive distinct impressions at shorter and shorter 

 intervals, until finally, the distance between the impressions de- 

 creasing indefinitely, they blend together into one homogeneous 

 picture. The simultaneous action of many different elements is 

 thus portrayed. This picture will constitute a higher, a kinetic 

 reality. Any student will recognize that in moments of most 

 successful thought he experiences pictures of this sort. Even 

 when we do not visualize environments as wholes in this way, it 

 is common for a well-stored mind to suggest particular after 

 particular with almost lightning rapidity until the whole con- 

 juncture is reproduced. 



The ability of the kinetic method to ease the mental strain 

 by permitting the use of static thought through this rapid differ- 

 entiation suggests that the old categories by which the economic 

 situation was analyzed are not to disappear at once. Land, labor, 

 and capital, rent, wages, and interest will abide with us still; but 

 they will not maintain so prominent a place. They will belong 

 to the lower rank of thought, retained in order to form a con- 

 necting link for the practical application in life of the higher 

 realities. At the same time, new categories will be evolved in the 

 social life. Discussion will turn about the more fundamental 

 traits of human nature involved in progress. The effort to obtain 

 clear ideas will be connected not so much with the newer as with 

 the older categories. They will now seem complex, since a single 

 variation in the newer will involve multiple variations in the older. 



J The theory of brain mechanism here followed seems to offer a simple 

 explanation. The writer does not wish to be understood as definitively 

 committed to it. 



