Chapter 1

THE INTELLECTUAL FACTOR.

Dissociation, preparatory work.--Dissociation in complete, incomplete and schematic images.--Dissociation in series. Its principal causes: internal or subjective, external or objective.--Association: its role reduced to a single question, the formation of new combinations.--The principal intellectual factor is thinking by analogy. Why it is an almost inexhaustible source of creation. Its mechanism. Its processes reducible to two, viz.: personification, transformation. 15