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in its relation to signs.

There will be no preparation for understanding these
lectures, which, judging by great psychologists, are not
easy to understand, and I may say I am sure they are
quite impossible to understand from the psychological
standpoint [??] since they turn principally upon elements
of experience that the psychologist takes pains to shut out
from view,—I say there is no better preparation than that
of spending an hour more or less, remembering for how very
short a time attention can be on the stretch without relaxation,
in spending then the remnants of an hour most of it
given to rest and to bringing attention back, in thinking
how thought is a dialogue discourse of the self that has been to
the critical self that is coming. "I says to myself," say
the wise unlearned. Thought is nothing but a tissue of