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point. Were it a solitary chord, it could never vibrate in response to all sorts of different notes and melodies. Hence, we have to divide the mind into five sections or types of rhythm, corresponding to the specific sensations of the five senses, and then to sub-divide these sections into a number of chords which can reproduce the exact quality of vibrations as come from without. Now, suppose the eye falls on a group of men. The currents passing through the retina would set a certain number of mental chords, which are attuned to their pitch, in vibration. Suppose these chords happen to be A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, .........to A, of the visual section A. Obviously, the next time that the eye falls on any of the members of the group, it would set some of these very chords in vibration, and these, in their turn, would tend to evoke resonance from the rest which had vibrated with them, as a whole, at the time of the perception of the group of which the man subsequently seen was a member. Hence we may lay down that the association of similarity arises from the sameness or similarity of the response, while that of contiguity depends on the connection which springs up from having vibrated together. As Bergson says, association is not the primary fact; dissociation is wha twe begin with, and the tendency of every memory to gather to itself others must be explained by the natural return of the mind to the undivided unity of perception (Matter and Memory). Each time that one opens one's eyes, they take in the whole of the visible panorama before them at a glance, mechanically ; and it is reserved for attention to carve out individuals from this heterogeneous mass, or the unity of perception,
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