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cannot possibly think of any one of those elements
in its purity. The most strenuous endeavors of
thinking will leave your ideas somewhat
confused. But I think I can help you to see
that there are three kinds of elements, and to
discern what they are like. I begin with
that one [illegible???] which the rough and tumble of life
renders most familiarly prominent. We are,
continually bumping up against hard facts.
We expected one thing or passively took it for granted, and had the image of it
in our minds. But experience forces that
idea into the background, and compels us to
think quite differently. You get this kind of
consciousness in some approach to purity
when you put your shoulder against a door

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cannot possibly think of any one of those elements in its purity. The most strenuous endeavors of thinking will leave your ideas somewhat confused. But I think I can help you to see that there [underlined] are [underlined/] three kinds of elements, and to discern what they are like. I begin with that one [illegible insertion] which the rough and tumble of life renders most familiarly prominent. We are, continually bumping up against hard facts. We expected one thing or passively took it forgranted, and had the image of it in our minds. But experience forces that idea into the background, and compels us to think quite differently. You get this kind of consciousness in some approach to purity when you put your shoulder against a door