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described is final term of a central thought; and, as an un¬ 
folded trio of details, it forms per se a thought which, in com¬ 
parison with the first, will rank in thought-perspective as 
lateral. 
In the mental process of this order there is danger, (see pp. 
117-118) of a misinterpretation based upon the identity of 
blended whole and unfolded trio. Such identity, it should be 
borne in mind, is purely historical, akin to that of bud and 
fiower, and fails to imply that what is true of blended whole 
is also true of unfolded trio. 
To illustrate more suggestively, the chrysalis and the un¬ 
folded insect are historically one and the same. Yet, other¬ 
wise regarded, the chrysalis (which may be no larger than an 
olive) and the unfolded insect (which may have a wing-spread 
of a foot or more) are so decidedly different, that it cannot 
safely be inferred that where there is room for the one there 
is room for the other also. Hor, in view of time elapsing, can 
it be inferred that where the chrysalis was the insect of neces¬ 
sity is—or that a particular activity, in which the chrysalis 
may be implicated with something else, includes the unfold¬ 
ing of the chrysalis into the insect. 
So too of thought, the blended whole and the unfolded trio, 
though historically one, are on the other hand too different in 
character and too presumably successive, to permit thought- 
membership enjoyed by one to be assumed with safety of the 
other. In particular it cannot be assumed that, because the 
“collision” of the diagram is the object of “saw,” therefore the 
following phrase is also object of the same. 
More generally stated, the process of unfolding a blended 
whole into a trio is independent of the process by which that 
whole is used with other ideas in forming a prior trio. Ac¬ 
cordingly, in the ability of the blended whole to serve as mem¬ 
ber of a given thought, I do not find the slightest indication 
that the unfolded trio does or can do the same. Indeed, while 
I find the blended whole to be a part of central thought, I find 
the unfolded trio to be lateral, and wholly exterior to centra) 
thought. 
To make this clear, I amend my diagram, enclosing in par- 
