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agree with us on the two qualities just mentioned , but that it was a loo-table could only be stated by one who had heard such tables so named , or who had acquired a conception of the game from intuitions connected with similar tables .
In more complicated cases , the relations between the conceptions stored in the mind and simple intuition become so numerous , that several pages would not suffice for the full analysis of a single series of them . Three straight poles , a few straggling lines , the upper portion of an half oval are pictured in the eye , and we have in the mind a shi p with decks , keel , rudder , anchor , provisions , passengers , stores , a captain , a crew , and ten thousand other associated conceptions . Yet from
habit all these mere associations pass so rapidly , that in common parlance we express ourselves as if they were all objects in direct intuition . The union of conceptions with present intuitions is not fortuitous ; it follows determinate laws . The commonest law is a habit we possess of combining things often before found together with each other , when one only is present in the intuition , as in the examples just adduced ; or , to add another , when we hear the sound of a drum and fife we expect to
meet a company of soldiers . Another law is when the object presented to our view has been on former occasions combined with objects giving pleasure or pain , we undergo emotions which we affix to what is present as necessary parts , and we talk of beholding a disgusting sight , or a vulgar fellow , or a fascinating lady , or a ridiculous performance . Here , however ,
independently ot tlie mere recollection of concomitant circumstance , the laws of taste , whether natural or acquired , come into operation . But the analysis of such laws , though most interesting , must be omitted here . A third law directs also a combination of conceptions with the intuitions , but is of a voluntary nature , having for its end the discovery from what is seen of what is not seen . It is the effort of the mind , which not yielding to an automatic impulse , strives to know the nature of an oband in this effort it is
ject ; necessary often to discard the loose associations which in the former instances we are prone to indulge , and to separate the adventitious conceptions from such as have a necessary connection with the object before us . The progress of the mind in this important labour has been traced , in a most accurate manner , by the author referred to—Mr . Wirgman , in those translations of Kant which he has made in the Encyclopaedia Londinensis , where he has endeavoured to place in one view all the lead ing parts of the analysis by throwing them into a tabular form , of the following singular construction : —
SENSE . A lli-xi-. pTivn'Y , or Passive Faculty , divided into two parts : — Internal Sense , External Sense , or or ' i '™ e , Space , which receives a which receives a Variety Variety in succession . that co-exists .
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agree with us on the two qualities just mentioned , but that it was a loo-table could only be stated by one who had heard such tables so named , or who had acquired a conception of the game from intuitions connected with similar tables .
In more complicated cases , the relations between the conceptions stored in the mind and simple intuition become so numerous , that several pages would not suffice for the full analysis of a single series of them . Three straight poles , a few straggling lines , the upper portion of an half oval are pictured in the eye , and we have in the mind a shi p with decks , keel , rudder , anchor , provisions , passengers , stores , a captain , a crew , and ten thousand other associated conceptions . Yet from
habit all these mere associations pass so rapidly , that in common parlance we express ourselves as if they were all objects in direct intuition . The union of conceptions with present intuitions is not fortuitous ; it follows determinate laws . The commonest law is a habit we possess of combining things often before found together with each other , when one only is present in the intuition , as in the examples just adduced ; or , to add another , when we hear the sound of a drum and fife we expect to
meet a company of soldiers . Another law is when the object presented to our view has been on former occasions combined with objects giving pleasure or pain , we undergo emotions which we affix to what is present as necessary parts , and we talk of beholding a disgusting sight , or a vulgar fellow , or a fascinating lady , or a ridiculous performance . Here , however ,
independently ot tlie mere recollection of concomitant circumstance , the laws of taste , whether natural or acquired , come into operation . But the analysis of such laws , though most interesting , must be omitted here . A third law directs also a combination of conceptions with the intuitions , but is of a voluntary nature , having for its end the discovery from what is seen of what is not seen . It is the effort of the mind , which not yielding to an automatic impulse , strives to know the nature of an oband in this effort it is
ject ; necessary often to discard the loose associations which in the former instances we are prone to indulge , and to separate the adventitious conceptions from such as have a necessary connection with the object before us . The progress of the mind in this important labour has been traced , in a most accurate manner , by the author referred to—Mr . Wirgman , in those translations of Kant which he has made in the Encyclopaedia Londinensis , where he has endeavoured to place in one view all the lead ing parts of the analysis by throwing them into a tabular form , of the following singular construction : —
SENSE . A lli-xi-. pTivn'Y , or Passive Faculty , divided into two parts : — Internal Sense , External Sense , or or ' i '™ e , Space , which receives a which receives a Variety Variety in succession . that co-exists .