Every New Concept First Comes To The

Third, Consider The Insistency Of An Idea. The Insistency Of A Past Idea With Reference To The Present Is A Quantity Which Is Less, The Further Back That Past Idea Is, And Rises To Infinity As The Past Idea Is Brought Up Into Coincidence With The Present.

The A Priori Method Is Distinguished For Its Comfortable Conclusions. It Is The Nature Of The Process To Adopt Whatever Belief Weare Inclined To, And There Are Certain Flatteries To The Vanity Of Man Which We All Believe By Nature, Until We Are Awakened From Our Pleasing Dream By Rough Facts.

We Should Chiefly Depend Not Upon That Department Of The Soul Which Is Most Superficial And Fallible (our Reason), But Upon That Department That Is Deep And Sure, Which Is Instinct.

It Is Certain That The Only Hope Of Retroductive Reasoning Ever Reaching The Truth Is That There May Be Some Natural Tendency Toward An Agreement Between The Ideas Which Suggest Themselves To The Human Mind And Those Which Are Concerned In The Laws Of Nature.

Three Elements Go To Make Up An Idea. The First Is Its Intrinsic Quality As A Feeling. The Second Is The Energy With Which It Affects Other Ideas, An Energy Which Is Infinite In The Here-and-nowness Of Immediate Sensation, Finite And Relative In The Recency Of The Past. The Third Element Is The Tendency Of An Idea To Bring Along Other Ideas With It.