THE SENSES. 37 



CHAPTER III. 



Tlie senses the physical media of the Consciousness Tlie evidence of 

 the senses of touch and taste Its impartiality Its posit iveness 

 Evidence of the eye and ear comparative and relative Co- 

 operation of the senses without collusion Distinctive perception* 

 or impressions of the senses The current of ideas How stimu- 

 latedIts importance Our relative perception of hardness, size, 

 weight, colour, pitch of sound, &c.0ur positive perception of 

 form Standards of comparison Size differently seen by different 

 individuals Erect vision and the inversion of images on the 

 retina Neither the true size nor true position of objects presented 

 to us by the eye Accuracy of the eye Its superiority over photo- 

 graphyA defect of photography How caused Further re- 

 marks on comparison Mirrors and mode of vision. 



WITH regard to the application of Consciousness to the 

 faculties in their structure and operation, it will be 

 apparent, after what has been already said, that it is our 

 Consciousness which possesses all the powers of feeling, 

 seeing, hearing, tasting, and smelling ; that the touch, 

 organs of taste and smell, eye and ear, are only the places 

 where and mechanical channels or physical media by 

 which it perceives these sensations ; and that it possesses, 

 in addition to these powers of perception, sensibilities 

 which no physical matter, however applied or organized, is, 

 or by any known law of nature can be, indued with, as an 

 inherent and material attribute of, or coexisting identity 

 with, matter. 



Let us now consider the structure and action of the 

 physical senses themselves, for we must still call them by 

 that name though strictly they are only physical channels 



