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that the necessity of such relations never ceases to be strongly 
felt—though far from clearly understood—I almost find the. 
mental eye perceiving dimly the relation needed in my illus¬ 
tration. More pictorially speaking, I observe amid the mass 
of gathered thought-materials, a void, whose surfaces are fixed 
by its environment—not merely a place for a needed idea, but 
a place with contours adequately definite; and these are, as it 
seems to me, a partial revelation of what is to fill that void. 
In this connection I recall a packing of my trunk, so compli¬ 
cated and absorbing that I found, on waking from the sleep 
for which I left it, that I had been dreaming of it at some 
length and to some purpose, putting in together satisfactorily 
books and boxes that had previously been too much for me. 
The new arrangement I began as soon as possible to carry out 
according to a mental diagram of all the several objects in their 
places—all but one; for as to that one—now that I was wide¬ 
awake—I could not remember w T hat or where it was. Even of 
its attributes the only ones I could recall were size and shape,, 
initially established by the place which in my dream it had. 
to fill. Of its color, its material, specific gravity or use, I had 
not the faintest notion. Yet, stimulated and directed only by 
remembered size and shape, I finally recalled, recovered and 
successfully adjusted it among its waiting neighbors. 
The new relation that should have been found 
Somewhat similarly guided, one who was puzzled much, but 
also stimulated by “My apples eat^(emselves) by (the aid of) 
the boys,” might it seems to me, discover the relation that ob¬ 
tains between “My apples” and “the boys”—a relation cer¬ 
tainly that ought to be discovered, as I shall a moment later 
indicate. I do not positively say however that it ever was dis¬ 
covered ; for, although presumable, discovery has left no record 
of which thus far I have information. 
Yet, for a moment, I prefer to reason on precisely as if the 
sought relation, being found, had been adopted as the meaning 
of the verb, thenceforward genuinely passive; for a measure 
of familiarity with that relation, as it seems to me, is vital 
