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mon phantom to the familiar notion which I substituted for the 2d not-familiar notion; this substitute dragged invariably forth the little-familiar and often barbarous required name itself.
Symbolically I will represent this process thus—
I have to connect together a plant which I never saw before, with a name which I never heard before,
I know there is very little chance of my obtaining an associating notion—I therefore take separately the plant and creep out from it into a familiar notion, thus I do the same thing with the other not-familiar notion, the name, thus—
Then I put the two sprung-up
familiar notions simultaneously before my mind, and I am pretty certain of obtaining a common or associating notion, thus—
