ABSTRACT
Association depends in a much greater degree on the recurrence of resembling states of feeling than on trains of ideas.
Ideas no more recall one another than the leaves in a tree fluttering in the breeze propagate their motion one to another (68). This is reminiscent of another saying of Coleridge Richards was particularly fond of, "Are not words, etc., parts and germinations of the plant," suggesting something that is preordained, that develops to fulfil its nature, like the unfolding leaf-and flower-buds of a tree, all of which of course serve functions for the total organism and are interdependent, thus providing a model for the Imagination.
