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what is to be. Now what is to be, as we conceive, can according to our conception of it,
can never become wholly past. In general, we
may say that meanings are inexhaustible.
We are too apt to think that what one means to do,
and the meaning of a word are quite distinct unrelated
meanings of the word meaning, or that they
are only connected by both referring to some
actual operation of the mind.
Prof. Royce especially in his great work on The World and the Individual
has done much to break up this mistake. In truth
the only difference is that when a person
means to do anything he is in some state in