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a great explosion of nitroglycerine before one had recovered
oneself and merely had the sense of the breaking off of
the quiet. Perhaps it might not be far from
what ordinary common sense conceives to take place when one billiard
ball caroms on another. One ball “acts”
on the other; that is, it makes an exertion minus the element
of representation. We may say with sufficient some approach to
accuracy that the general Firstness of all true
Secondness is Existence, though this term more
particularly applies to Secondness in so far as it
is an element of the reacting First and Second. If we