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"inward," from receptual, or "outward," self-consciousness 

 was a gradual process ; that its birth in the former is not 

 merely a matter of inference — overpowering though this 

 inference be, — but a matter of actual fact which is recorded 

 in the archives of Language itself; and, therefore, that the 

 central question upon which the whole of the present treatise 

 has been engaged cannot an\- longer be regarded as an open 

 question. It has been closed, part by part, as the witness 

 of philolog}- has verified, stage by stage, the results of our 

 psychological analysis ; and now, eventually, the verification 

 has extended to the central core of the matter, revealing in 

 all its naked simplicit)- the one decisive fact, that in the 

 childhood of the world, no less than in that of the man, we 

 may see the fundamental change from sense to thought : in 

 the one as in the other do we behold that — 



"As he grows he gathers much, 

 And learns the use of ' I,' and ' me," 

 And finds ' I am not what I see, 

 And other than the things I touch.' 



" So rounds he to a separate mind 



From W'hence clear memory may begin, 

 As thro' the frame that binds him in 

 His isolation grows defined. " 



