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earth was very hot, and how the first one was produced
is a puzzle. It cannot have been by the action of
brute forces. For the second branch of the inquiry, you
must train yourself to the analysis of relations, and
beginning with such as are very markedly triadic,
gradually going on to others. In that way, you will convince
yourself thoroughly that every genuine triadic relation
involves thought, or meaning. Take, for example, the
relation of giving. A gives B to C. This does not
consist in A's throwing B away and its accidentally
hitting C, like the datestone which hit the Jinn
in the eye. If that were all, it would not be a genuine
triadic relation, but merely one dyadic relation followed
by another. There need be no motion of the thing given.
Giving is a transfer of the right of property. Now right