The Metaphysics of a Naturalist 
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centers so that the net result is not that of ^blueness/ let us say, but 
that of a particular degree of a particular kind of blueness in a definite 
place. Upon the equilibrium theory of consciousness it is not difficult 
to conceive that the tendency to coordinate and fuse various stimuli into 
one form of activity must be perpetually present, and as a matter of fact 
the most striking peculiarity of mental action is this same law of mental 
composition which finds its highest expression in what is called apper- 
ceptive action.” 
