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that succession when the motion has come to an end. It 

 is the same in hearing a series of sounds and seeing a series 

 of objects in a Hue. In each case we have feehngs corre- 

 sponding with the succession of the things felt, and in each 

 case the feehngs are themselves successive. In so far, then^ 

 as there is a physical resemblance between series of things 

 felt, there is a resemblance between the feehngs they induce. 

 There is, indeed, no feeling of succession itself. ' Succession ' 

 is only apprehended by our intellect But, nevertheless, 

 there is a distinct set of feelings which are severally con- 

 nected with different orders of succeeding things. Just in 

 the same way, in exploring any solid object with our eyes 

 and hands, we have the intellectual perception of its three 

 dimensions "of length, breadth, and thickness ; but we also 

 have a number of feehngs of touch, of pressure, of move- 

 ments of arms and fingers, etc., and thus we come to have a 

 group or plexus of feelings corresponding Avith the extension, 

 of the object felt, together with feelings corresponding with 

 its hmits — that is, with the felt terminations of its extension. 

 Thus, also, we come to have certain plexuses or groups of 

 feelings corresponding with the shapes of bodies \ and we 

 also get feelings corresponding with the sizes of bodies, 

 according as they force us to extend our arms or fingers 

 more or less widely to embrace them, or to move our head 

 and eyes more or less extensively to survey them. Similarly,. 

 by the singleness of impressions, or by their multitude (as 

 in a sharp hailstorm), we come to have feelings related to the 

 unity or multiplicity, and others corresponding with the 

 motion and cessation of motion (or rest) of the bodies which 

 affect our senses. 



Again, we experience a certain feeling of shock when, 

 upon the occurrence of some sensations, other sensations 

 different from those which association has connected with 

 the former come unexpectedly upon us. Let us suppose 



