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part of emotional centre. How does this coincide with his statementthis evening that it cannot be done by one centre alone?MR. O. It depends again on what picture. I did not say every picture.But the thing is that intellectual parts of centres do not work bythemselves, separately, or only very seldom. Action of intellectual partof emotional centre necessarily will use material of other centres.MR. A . Was the suggestion seriously made that we should analyse allour actions and put them into these categories—and do it all day long?MR. O. All! All day long! Again these absolutes. I did not say all actionsand I did not say all day long. First we have no power of analysis ofsuch strength. If we could do this, we would know many things in avery short time. But if we find one action in a month which we can putin a definite category, even that would be good. You must understandour forces and capacities are always taken into consideration. We do notknow how to analyse, how to qualify and we cannot do it all the time.MR. A . Are all actions during the day painting or stealing or burning?Are there no actions that we, as automatons, can do which are outsidethese categories?MR. O. These are only the fundamental categories. Then there are thecombinations. For instance, take it simply arithmetically. There are sixfundamental combinations: these give 144 different combinations. Wewill speak much later about these combinations.MISS M . Are we at the moment to disregard the motive of an action?MR. O. Not always. Why should we, if we know? If we can know, itmay help to understand or it may not help us. Again this will enterinto something we shall speak about either to-day or some othertime. The meaning of different forces in a certain position. We willdiscuss the meaning of first force in the first place; of first force inthe second place; of the first force in the third place; then of thesecond force in the first place; in the second place, in the third place;of the third force in the first place, second place, third place. Thatdiscussion may show you the approach to this question aboutmotive.MRS. D. You read that a country is fighting war in order to havepeace. Isn't this an example of wrong triad?MR. O. This is just ordinary political lying. It cannot be put in anycategory.MR. H . In what category does the effort to self-remember fall?