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second portion of our conscious series as contrasted with its 

 first and third portion. 



It is well understood, I hope, that in the whole of the 

 present discussion we have only been dealing with pheno- 

 mena of consciousness : we have studied how one state of 

 my consciousness is influenced by a former one and influ- 

 ences a later state ; in this respect all of our objects have 

 been " psychical " ones. But, in spite of that, the psychical 

 phenomena we have studied differ from one another in so 

 far as their first and their third portion consist in conscious 

 phenomena which have the peculiarity of being objectified 

 by the Ego as relating to what is called " my body " and 

 " my brain " in particular, whilst the second portion of the 

 series of our phenomena is not objectified in such a manner, 

 but is either objectified to so-called " other things," the lamp 

 for instance, or not objectified at all. Without forgetting, 

 therefore, that the phenomena we study are without excep- 

 tion psychical, let us give the name of " intra-psychical series " 

 to that second portion of the whole of our conscious series 

 of subjective events which does not stand in relation to my 

 so-called body in any respect. 



e. THE DIRECT PROOF OF VITALISM 



And now let us abandon our strictly subjective view 

 and let us look upon the Given as science does. We, of 

 course, have no intention of taking a leap into realism ; the 

 " Given * will not cease to be a phenomenon to me, but we 

 now shall call " Nature " or " the Objective " that part of the 

 sum of phenomena presented to me which I am forced to 

 relate to so-called bodies in space ; and out of this " Nature 5: 



