172 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 
By way of further illustration I note that, given “The storm 
of yesterday killed a sallow, white-haired stranger of some 
ninety years / : ’ I am content to associate the destructive energy 
of the storm with the stranger/without regarding it as spread 
over his sallowness, the whiteness of his hair, and his some¬ 
what extraordinary age. That is, while in a way it may he 
said that the object of “killed” is all that follows “killed,” that 
total hardly takes the object position collectively, but rather as 
indicated by (“The storm of yesterday killed [a stranger) dis¬ 
tinguished by certain characteristics”]. In other words, the 
parenthesized expression and the bracketed interlock. The 
former strictly incorporates the latter only to this extent, that 
it incorporates its nucleary factor. 
So also I construe my leading illustration, as most easily is 
shown by the diagram: 
the sun 
Astronomers — declare — to exceed 
the moon 
of which the horizontal expression includes the middle nucleary 
element only of the perpendicular. That is, precisely as I 
negotiate with a corporation through a leading official, so also 
a central thought establishes a structural union with a lateral, 
through a leading factor of the latter; and, to any objecting ad¬ 
vocate of collective thought-construction, it may be answered 
that such procedure meets the more important needs. The 
difference between a thought collectively used, and a nucleary 
factor attended by its fellows, is the negligible difference be¬ 
tween a whole of necessity recognized in its parts, and a part 
thereof unseparated from the remainder. 
To illustrate quite objectively, suppose you ask me to bring 
you your dog. As a collectivist in syntax, you may wish me 
to pick up the creature bodily, and carry him. But, for rea¬ 
sons altogether satisfactory to myself, I adopt another method. 
Catching him by the ear, the tail, the scruff of the neck, as 
suits my humor, I lug him to his master. What more do you 
want? Or, again, I am to haul your senseless body out of a 
pit. Being skilled in cow-boy tactics, I cast a noose around 
your neck or waist or heels, somewhat as my convenience indi- 
