The Sensory Acts Are Accordingly Distinguished By

Hence, In Desiring, The More The Enjoyment Is Delayed, The More Fancy Begins To Weave About The Object Images Of Future Fruition, And To Clothe The Desired Object With Properties Calculated To Inflame The Impulse.

An Object Is Not First Imagined Or Thought About And Then Expected Or Willed, But In Being Actively Expected It Is Imagined As Future And In Being Willed It Is Thought.

We Cannot Therefore Say That Mental Acts Contain A Cognitive As Well As A Conative Element.

But Though Cognition Is Not An Element Of Mental Action, Nor Even In Any Real Sense Of The Word An Aspect Of It, The Distinction Of Cognition And Conation Has If Properly Defined A Definite Value.

Curiosity Begins As An Act Of Tearing To Pieces Or Analysis.