dissection. In such dissection I must now engage. As a good pedagogue
I must discuss operations separately which in reality get all their
meaning through being found together. Against the necessary
distortions of such a method the reader must be on his guard.



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In the total process of self-direction there are evidently two main
divisions,--a mental purpose must be formed, and then this purpose
must be sent forth into the outer world. It is there accepted by those
agencies of a physical sort which wait to do our bidding. The
formation of the mental purpose I will, for the sake of brevity, call
the intention, and to the sending of it forth I will give the name
volition. That these terms are not always confined within these limits
is plain. But I shall not force their meaning unduly by employing them
so, and I need a pair of terms to mark the great contrasted sides of
self-direction. The intention (A) shall designate the subjective side.
But those objective adjustments which fit it to emerge and seek in an
outer world its full expression I shall call the volition (B).

For the present, then, regarding entirely the former, let us see how
an intention arises,--how self-consciousness sets to work in stirring
up activity. To gain clearness I shall distinguish three subordinate
stages, designating them by special names and numerals.



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