Item 122 - Letter from G.F. Stout to Henry Sidgwick

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Thanks Sidgwick for the cheque for £70. Announces that he shall be in Cambridge in the beginning of July and will send him an account of what has been paid to contributors up to date. Refers to a recent club discussion in which Sidgwick spoke about the '"felicitous dynamics" of those who have been influenced by Herbert', and 'the operation of masses and systems of ideas, which are not discernible in consciousness' as '"mere mythology"'. Sympathises with his attitude, but is convinced 'that there are certain facts of our mental life which it is difficult [to] formulate' otherwise than in terms of what Sidgwick calls 'fictitious dynamics'. Asks Sidgwick when an object arouses in him a sense of its significance through its preformed association, how is one to describe the mode of operation of these associations.