postpone till summer weather. And after all there is Boston's most
common mode of locomotion right at hand, the electric car. Strange it
was not thought of before! The five-cent piece saved from the
chocolates will carry me, swiftly, safely, and with independence.

It is in this way that we go through the process of deliberation. All
the possible means of effecting our purpose are summoned for judgment.
The feasibility of each is examined, and the cost involved in its
employment. Comparison is made between the advantages offered by
different agencies; and oftentimes at the close we are in a sad
puzzle, finding these advantages and disadvantages so nearly balanced.
One, however, is finally judged superior in fitness. To this we tie
ourselves, making it the channel for our out-go. The whole process,
then, in its detailed comparison and final fixation, is identical with
that to which I have given the name of decision, except that the
comparisons of decision refer to inner facts, those of deliberation to
outer.



VIII

We now reach the climax of the whole process, effort, the actual
sending forth through the deliberately chosen channel of the ideal
desired and decided on. To it all the rest is merely preliminary, and
in it the final move is made which commits us to the deed. About it,
therefore, we may well desire the completest information. To tell the
truth, I have none to give, and nobody else has. The nature of the
operation is substantially unknown. Though something which we have
been performing all day long, we and all our ancestors, no one of us