ho was sitting by him
declared, at that very moment."

In the above case the whole scene was started instantaneously in his
brain, but in waking his mind analysed it in Time and Space and spread
it out into a long historical record. The opposite process to this,
namely, the building up a thought-picture, is what we do every day
when we form and combine our conceptions under the dominion of Time
and Space, until we have accumulated in our minds a multitude of
concepts which form as it were a single subject, somewhat analogous to
a painter when he has completed his picture, a writer his book, an
architect his house, or even a mechanic his machine. An interesting
example of a musician constructing a thought-picture is given by
Mozart himself:

"When I am all right and in good spirits, either in a
carriage or walking, and at night when I cannot sleep,
thoughts come streaming in and at their best. Whence and how
I know not, I cannot make out. The things which occur to me
I keep in my head, and hum them also to myself--at least
others have told me so. If I stick to it, there soon come,
one after another, useful crumbs for the pie, according to
counterpoint, harmony of the different instruments, &c. This
now inflames my soul, that is if I am not disturbed. Then it
keeps on growing, and I keep on expanding it more distinctly,
and the thing, however long it be, becomes indeed almost
finished in my head, so that I can always survey it in spirit
like a beautiful picture or a fine person, and also hear in
imagination, not indeed successively, as by and by it must
come out, but all together. That is a delight! All the
invention and construction go on in me as in a fine strong
dream, but the overhearing it all at once is still the best."

With these illustrations before us may we not carry the analogy even
further, and see that, as our conception of a Cat was made up of
numberless small acquisitions of knowledge, some of which had to be
discarded, or eliminated as errors, from our minds as our knowledge
grew, and as each true fact became confirmed and impressed upon our
brain it made itself a _permanent_ record and became a centre to be
used for gaining further knowledge; so in this wonderful Thought of
the Great Reality, whose mind may be said to be omnipresent, each
individual soul is a working unit in the plan of Creation; each unit
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