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for economy sake. Ideas are so many, words so few, that two words for one idea is wicked waste. When we say the Campanile no longer 'exists', we mean 'reacts against brute forces,' so as to get photographed on eye-retinas, etc. though it still acts on our sense of beauty. Why give 'exist' two senses between which we so much need to discriminate? Especially, when we have the word 'real,' invented in the XIIIth century on purpose to mean 'that which has properties, i.e. characters sufficient to identify it, whether any single man or group of men in any way attribute them to it, or not'; it has 'real properties,' or distinctive characters that can no more be purloined from it than lands and houses from their owner, things which were already called propria realia, before the metaphysical word, real, was created. Thus, the substance of a dream is not 'Real,' but Per-sonal, or Fictive, i.e. it was such as it was only in that somebody so dreamed it; but the fact of the dream is Real because if the dreamer did dream it so, he did, whether he remember it or no; and it is liable to discovery; or maybe, he