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Returning back to our simile of the two boxes, I will now suppose that I take with my right hand one thousand cards, but with the left I take only a few. It is clear that there will be very little chance of having a card common to both hands; and at any rate the probability is here far less than in the case of my grasping with each hand one thousand cards. When I put before my mind a series of couples forming the 2nd phrenotypic problem, the probability of having a common phantom spring up is far less than in the first problem, and therefore I will proceed differently.
Suppose I had to commit to memory the following arbitrary vocabulary.
| scopo | bread |
| stireen | water |
| lamono | sofa, |
| &c. &c. | |
I will first put before my mind scopo alone: this makes rise before my mind the notion scope: this notion scope I will put simultaneously before my mind with bread, and immediately labour springs up thus—"The scope of labour is bread."
I put stireen alone: this excites the notion of stir in: I put stir in and water simultaneously,
