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exceed the moon” into structural union with “Astronomers de¬ 
clare”. The difficulty of grasping three halls is the difficulty 
of sensing thought-constituents recognized by particular syn¬ 
tax, as the aggregate prescribed by collective syntax—the dif¬ 
ficulty of treating the total “the sun to exceed the moon” as 
the object of “declare”—or vice versa, the difficulty of regard¬ 
ing the force of “declare” as spread over the total “the sun to 
exceed the moon.”The moving of a single ball, which, however, 
is attended by its fellows, is the posing of “exceed” alone, as 
the object of “declare”, though “exceed” is not forsaken by its 
fellow-terms. 
To use an even more objective illustration, I seem, in build¬ 
ing the infinitive phrase, to think very much as I dress in prep¬ 
aration for a tramp in the brush. Putting on first my can¬ 
vas trousers, I further strap them about my ankles, and also 
buckle a belt that runs through the loops of the waist-band. In 
doing this it may occur to me that trousers, ankle-straps and 
belt together constitute one nether garment. But straps and 
belt I actually adjust as trouser-supplements, additions or ap¬ 
pendages. In a sense I have donned a single outfit; but I put 
it on, not at all collectively, but in successive details. And 
quite analogously, in my sentence-making, I feel that in the 
word “(to) exceed” I have provided the only proper object of 
“declare;” while, with “sun” and “moon,” I have further pro* 
vided that object—itself an action also—with (in form, at 
least) an actor, and also with that whereon to act. That is, 
I have added to “exceed” what must rank as thought co-mem¬ 
bers with “exceed”, but not immediately as such with “declare.” 
I do not however believe that in thought-building the adop¬ 
tion of one plan excludes another from mental recognition at 
the moment. In the universe of mind you may doubtless have 
your cake and eat it. "While telling you about a collision, 
I can doubtless be thinking that I have an abominable head¬ 
ache. While thinking of what I have seen as a single de¬ 
tail (the striking) of a collision, further attended by its 
fellow details, I can also think of what I have seen, as 
their organically assembled total. As I read in the morn- 
