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further a classification which, while suggested by certain 

 fundamental traits reached without a very lengthened in 

 quiry, is yet, we believe, in harmony with that disclosed by 

 detailed analysis. 



Leaving out of view the &quot;Will, which is a simple homo 

 geneous mental state, forming the link between feeling 

 and action, and not admitting of subdivisions ; our states oi 

 consciousness fall into two great classes COGNITIONS and 

 FEELINGS. 



COGNITIONS, or those modes of mind in which we are 

 occupied with the relations that subsist among our feelings, 

 are divisible into four great sub-classes. 



Presentative cognitions / or those in which conscious 

 ness is occupied in localizing a sensation impressed on the 

 organism occupied, that is, with the relation between this 

 presented mental state and those other presented mental 

 states which make up our consciousness of the part affected: 

 as when we cut ourselves. 



Presentative-representative cognitions or those in 

 which consciousness is occupied with the relation between 

 a sensation or group of sensations and the representa 

 tions of those various other sensations that accompany it 

 in experience. This is what we commonly call perception 

 an act in which, along with certain impressions presented 

 to consciousness, there arise in consciousness the ideas of 

 certain other impressions ordinarily connected with the 

 presented ones : as when its visible form and colour, 

 )ead us to mentally endow an orange with all its other 

 attributes. 



Representative cognitions ; or those in which conscious 

 ness is occupied with the relations among ideas or repre 

 sented sensations : as in all acts of recollection. 



He-representative cognitions / or those in which tha 

 occupation of consciousness is not by representation of 

 special relations, that have before been presented to con 



