There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think. - Charles Sanders Peirce

A certain maxim of Logic which I have called Pragmatism has recommended itself to me for diverse reasons and on sundry considerations. Having taken it as my guide for most of my thought, I find that as the years of my knowledge of it lengthen, my sense of the importance of it presses upon me more and more. If it is only true, it is certainly a wonderfully efficient instrument. It is not to philosophy only that it is applicable. I have found it of signal service in every branch of science that I have studied. My want of skill in practical affairs does not prevent me from perceiving the advantage of being well imbued with pragmatism in the conduct of life.

The next simplest feature that is common to all that comes before the mind, and consequently, the second category, is the element of Struggle.

Let me now try to gather up all these odds and ends of commentary and restate the law of mind, in a unitary way.