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 that it were really better to lop off in order to get at the real, the essential content. … The state itself is a unit, and must be treated so; its complexity can be defined only on the side of its use in the entire activity."

The correctness of the point of view indicated by the quotations from King, no one who lays his "faculty" psychology on the shelf and gives himself to the observation of a child's ways will be likely to question. If one