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plete; for, especially in oral speech, one word can only be after 
another, not above or below it, not in front of or behind it. As 
the flow of words is in one direction only—as a word can 
hardly be said to stand before another which as yet has no 
sentential existence, and therefore can scarcely serve as land¬ 
mark for positional relation—it is hardly a transgression of 
figurative bounds, to say that speech is semi-dimension ah 
That is, one may, so to speak, proceed along the linguistic line 
from left to right but not in the reverse direction, and not in 
any direction perpendicular to that line. 
Operating under these embarrassing restrictions, having an¬ 
nounced “Astronomers” and “declare,” I should plainly find 
it advantageous to the recognition of central thought-construc¬ 
tion, to bring in at once the remaining central term “to ex¬ 
ceed.” But, as our minds are thus far little embarrassed by 
accumulated thought-material, there is hardly danger that 
“sun”—if now brought in instead of “to exceed”—will be mis¬ 
taken as the object of “declare;” and as such a mistake, if 
made, would easily and promptly be corrected, no important 
harm is done by following “declare” with “sun.” 
On the other hand the recognition of lateral thought-construc¬ 
tion—which is no less necessary—is embarrassed by increased 
accumulation of thought-material (which, if many adjuncts 
were introduced, would be considerable), and will be particu¬ 
larly aided by the appearance of wmrds for its terms in their 
natural order. 
As to what such order may be, I note that the verb, as 
relation-namer, indicates a mind-sensation developed by a 
waning and a waxing idea—or, say, in a mental transit from 
a first term to a last—or the how-I-feel in mentally passing 
from one to the other. Relation, in other words, is ultimately 
sensed as holding between its terms; and the word which names 
it is picturesquely, and so far helpfully, put between the words 
for those terms. Accordingly, in spite of the prevailing order 
of words, apparently adopted in the interest of lateral thought- 
construction, I find no reason to doubt that central thought and 
its incorporation of what is lateral are rightly indicated by 
“Astronomers declare to exceed the sun the moon.” 
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