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placed by the gratification, G. Viewed from with 

 out, as we are now regarding it, there is S-K-G. 

 But from within, for itself, it is now S, now 

 K, now G, and so on to the end of the chapter. 

 Nowhere is there looking before and after; 

 memory and anticipation are not born. Such 

 an experience neither is, in whole or in part, 

 a knowledge, nor does it exercise a cognitive 

 function. 



Here, however, we may be halted. If there is 

 anything present in &quot; consciousness &quot; at all, we 

 may be told (at least we constantly are so told) 

 there must be knowledge of it as present present, 

 at all events, in &quot; consciousness.&quot; There is, so it 

 is argued, knowledge at least of a simple appre 

 hensive type, knowledge of the acquaintance order, 

 knowledge that, even though not knowledge what. 

 The smell, it is admitted, does not know about any 

 thing else, nor is anything known about the smell 

 (the same thing, perhaps) ; but the smell is known, 

 either by itself, or by the mind, or by some sub 

 ject, some unwinking, unremitting eye. No, we 

 must reply ; there is no apprehension without some 

 (however slight) context; no acquaintance which 

 is not either recognition or expectation. Ac 

 quaintance is presence honored with an escort; 

 presence is introduced as familiar, or an associate 

 springs up to greet it. Acquaintance always im 

 plies a little friendliness ; a trace of re-knowing, of 



