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Dr. Harald HoflEding thus expresses the idea of how 

 feeling acts in passing from the old to the new, which 

 always, consciously or unconsciously, contains more or 

 less of the old: "The stream of feeling," he says, "is in 

 general reluctant to quit the bed that it has worked 

 for itself. It has accommodated itself to the traditional 

 ideas, and a time of unrest and discord must be passed 

 through before it can reaccommodate itself to the new 

 ideas. During such a time of transition, the two streams 

 of feeling, the one tending to flow on in the old bed, 

 the other to expand, have a hard struggle with one 

 another. Or, to express it more correctly, the tendency 

 of the old feeling to spread itself over and colour the 

 whole of consciousness struggles against the same 

 tendency on the part of the new feeling, for the feelings 

 that are bound up with tradition have also an expansive 

 tendency and wiU always try, if they cannot altogether 

 crowd out the new feeling, at any rate to colour and 

 transform it ; in extreme cases, where they can maintain 

 themselves in no other way, the old ideas become trans- 

 formed in correspondence with the new." 



These remarks, although they are intended to apply 

 specially to the feelings of an individual, have an even 

 greater force when predicated of a community. For 

 instance, the park idea of pastoral restfulness, an old 

 one, should be extended and transformed in a new way 

 from the park to the sidewalk and street by means of 

 intervals of grass space between trees and shrubs all 

 skilfully associated together. This park idea should be 

 further extended to the lawns and dooryards of citizens, 



