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of the distinction between the experience I control and the experience that is uncontrollable,—my inner ideas and the ideas that force themselves upon me from without. But soon I come to learn that these shifts of feeling that are beyond direct control can nevertheless be indirectly controlled, that I can call up by an effort an idea of the shift I desire to have forced upon my experience and then by another exertion can operate so that upon a third exertion the desired experience shall be forced upon me. And by a complication of this same process I can imagine that it takes place, or that it would take place if I made the proper exertion, or that it may be so brought under control, or that if something were to be capable of forcing itself upon my experience such a shift could be brought under control. Thought consists in such sequences of imaginary experience; it is an experience in which the uncontrollable

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