It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.