ABSTRACT
An idea may appear to burst suddenly into the awareness of an individual or a community, but the full implications of a powerful new conception are only slowly understood. Some of its more important applications may not be widely appreciated for decades or even centuries after the idea was first formulated in bare outline. It has long been known that problems can be put away out of conscious attention and left to mature at an unconscious or less conscious level. Unconscious thought patterns are ahead of the conscious mind on the path toward unification of experience. Thus the nonpathological unconscious or perconscious leads the conscious. The unconscious tradition is the direct expression at the human but unconscious level of the organic coordinating tendency, and it therefore displays a movement toward unity and coordination. It has for long been ahead of those premiers who claim to promote the separate interest of their own nation.
