CHAPTEK V
MEMORY AND IMAGINATION.
When we sit in a real theater and see the
stage with its depth and watch the actors
moving and turn onr attention hither and
thither, we feel that those impressions from
behind the footlights have objective charac¬
ter, while the action of onr attention is sub¬
jective. Those men and things come from
without but the play of the attention starts
from within. Yet our attention, as we have
seen, does not really add anything to the im¬
pressions of the stage. It makes some more
vivid and clear while others become vague or
fade away, but through the attention alone
no content enters our consciousness. Wher¬
ever our attention may wander on the stage,
whatever we experience comes to us through
the channels of our senses. The spectator in
the audience, however, does experience more
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