Owen—Hybrid Parts of Speech. 141 
some members the Democratic party claims.'” In this, my 
central purpose contemplates the inclusion of some individuals 
in a particular church. I also however go out of religion and 
into politics, for the lateral purpose of specifying the intended 
individuals. These individuals or members, which in my ro 
ligous purpose were doubtless central, continue in mind, 
as I carry out the lateral purpose. But, as part of what is 
lateral, they seem to me now, of quasi-necessity, lateral. 
Somewhat similarly, making an addition to my house, I re¬ 
gard the original outer wall as a constituent of the principal 
structure, when I am in that structure, but rather as part of 
the addition, when I am occupied therein. So also, surveying 
the completed total, whether a house or a thought, my perspect¬ 
ive recognition of it seems to me to pose the simultaneous factor 
as central in what is central, without prejudice to its beiug 
lateral in what is lateral. At least, so far as self-examina¬ 
tion may be safely trusted, I seem to use an idea without repe¬ 
tition, as member of a central thought and also of a lateral 
thought, which is perhaps sufficient ground for naming it after 
both the thoughts in which it serves. 
Strictly speaking, as the observer of my own cerebration, I must 
perhaps conceive myself as stationary, while the panorama of my 
mental pictures moves along before me. However, in many comparisons 
of the moving and the stationary, it is helpful and harmless to think 
of what moves as stationary, and vice versa. Accordingly, let the mind 
be conceived to move from thought to thought, somewhat as the body 
moves from place to place. Somewhat then as, in a passage from one 
valley to another, the intervening ridge which at first was in the north 
appears now in the south as a constituent element of a second scenie 
total, without an intervening disappearance, and hence without a repeti¬ 
tion—so also, in a passage from one thought to another, the mind, 
though keeping constantly in view their once-thought common factor, 
may see it so to speak on the other side, not only as now a part of a 
thought exciting less immediate interest than the former, but also a£ 
itself no longer so impressive as at first—as lateral now instead off 
central. 
(1) Its leadership among its lateral fellows . 
The suggestion offered by tbis title is a mere revival of 
wbat was noted in a former publication (see “Revision of the 
Pronouns,” page 97), namely, that every thought may be sensed 
