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detail. This imaginary performance repeated over and over again establishes a habit in us that will affect our real conduct and an awareness of that habit which is the knowledge of the purpose. There can hardly be a doubt that something like that takes place and has to take place. Why not simply suppose that that is the whole phenomenon, that the awareness of the habit comes about and exists only in the imagination of the course of action that we are going to pursue,—only in running it over in the imagination. Why suppose that there ever is any instantaneous photograph of that purpose? True, there may be a feeling which serves as a sign to us that we are animated by that purpose. But it can do this only so far as the sign is interpreted, and how can the sign be interpreted except into an imaginary portrait of the purposed action, which portraiture to be a likeness must have a protension like