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By Experience, I mean any conscious effect contributing to a habit satisfactory and selfcontrolled yet destructible by no exercise of intellectual vigor but only by deadening one's powers. Thus if a little child inserts its finger into a flame, it will Experience a feeling which will contribute to form a habit of keeping his finger out of flames. It will be self-controlled, since he could easily behave in the contrary way; but he will be too well satisfied with the habit to do so. He cannot by any means rid himself of his antipathy to putting his finger into flame, unless he becomes insane or intoxicated: the effect is destructible only by deadening his cognitive powers.