If the word have any meaning, it must
denote what there is found. _There_ is complete
activity in its original and first intention.
What is 'known-as' is what there appears.
The experiencer of such a situation possesses all
that the idea contains. He feels the tendency,
the obstacle, the will, the strain, the triumph, or
the passive giving up, just as he feels the time,
the space, the swiftness or intensity, the movement,
the weight and color, the pain and pleasure,
the complexity, or whatever remaining
characters the situation may involve. He goes
through all that ever can be imagined where
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activity is supposed. If we suppose activities
to go on outside of our experience, it is in forms
like these that we must suppose them, or else
give them some other name; for the word
'activity' has no imaginable content whatever
save these experiences of process, obstruction,
striving, strain, or release, ultimate _qualia_ as
they are of the life given us to be known.
Were this the end of the matter, one might
think that whenever we had successfully lived
through an activity-situation we should have
to be permitted, without provoking contradiction,
to say that we had been really active,
that we had met real resistance and had really
prevailed.
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