But the flux of it no sooner comes than it
tends to fill itself with emphases, and these
salient parts become identified and fixed and
abstracted; so that experience now flows as if
shot through with adjectives and nouns and
prepositions and conjunctions. Its purity is
only a relative term, meaning to proportional
amount of unverbalized sensation which
it still embodies.
Far back as we go, the flux, both as a whole
and in its parts, is that of things conjunct and
separated. The great continua of time, space,
and the self envelope everything, betwixt
them, and flow together without interfering.
The things that they envelop come as separate
in some ways and as continuous in others.
Some sensations coalesce with some ideas, and
others are irreconcilable. Qualities compenetrate
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one space, or exclude each other from it.
They cling together persistently in groups that
move as units, or else they separate. Their
changes are abrupt or discontinuous; and their
kinds resemble or differ; and, as they do so,
they fall into either even or irregular series.
In all this the continuities and the discontinuities
are absolutely co-ordinate matters of
immediate feeling.
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