Abstract
Our watching an actor, his outer form actualizes there his very existence and since his outer form is shown as that of the character he is playing, it also actualizes the character's existence for our consciousness. Then, is there no imagination working in our consciousness of seeing acting? In acting the outer form is a moving object. The movement itself cannot be perceived through our sence-organs. It is grasped by virtue of the inner unification of our time-consciousness. We sense at each moment of perceiving the object that it is moving from some place to some place, and in sensing that we know the object is moving. In our perception of a man this moving distance is his life and the character's life is his story, that is, his plot ; which is grasped only in our imaginative consciousness.
