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the relation of thought in itself to thinking, on the one hand,
and to graphs, on the other hand. Those relations being
once magisterially grasped, it will be seen that the Graphs
break to pieces all the really serious barriers, not only to the logical analysis of thought
but also to the digestion of a different lesson by rendering literally
visible before one's very eyes the operation of thinking in actu. In order
that the fact should come to light that the method of Graphs really accomplishes this
marvellous result, it is first of all needful, or at least highly desirable, that the reader
should have thoroughly assimilated, in all its parts, the truth
that thinking always proceeds in the form of a dialogue,— a dialogue
between different phases of the ego,— so that, being dialogical,
it is essentially composed of signs, as its Matter, in the sense in which
a game of chess has the chessmen for its matter. Not that the particular