An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively … - Samuel Alexander

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When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him. He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.

Samuel Alexander

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

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Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

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