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approach it from all these various standpoints at once, but only from one of them. All the experiences in which a particular aspect of a thing is prominently brought out would, therefore, accrue to the impulse concerned in their experiencing, and will be so many accretions to it. This is why our impulses grow strong by indulgence.
To understand the part played by Will in recollection, we begin with the fact that each psychosis represents a multiplicity of objects presented to our consciousness at the same time. When I enjoy an orange, it is not that the fact of the existence or taste of the orange alone is noticed by the mind and nothing else. The place where, the time when, the friends in whose company the fruit is eaten-all these play a very important part in the experience, and the whole psychosis is recorded in the Will, as a single indivisible experience, not merely the existence of the orange as an isolated fact. In this way all the individual experiences in which the orange fruit occupies the central place will be allotted to the orange-impulse. But if the orange experience was a secondary matter and the central place was occupied by something else in the experience, then the allotment would not be made to the orange-impulse but to the one which was principally concerned in the experience. You have, therefore, the orange experiences principally allotted to one impulse, which we have termed the orange-impulse, and also secondarily comprised in a number of other impulses, as being contiguous with something else that mattered chiefly at the time.
Now, in recollection if you allow the mind to dwell on a particular idea (e.g., an orange), past experiences of different kinds, centred round that idea (in this instance an orange), will begin to unfold themselves in recollection, and the process will be continued so long as Will remains interested in the search. The rhythm actually present in the mind which is the guiding factor in recollection is what really determines the point when satisfaction is deemed to be obtained; for
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