PROLEGOMENA. CXI. 



at the precise moment of time that it is made 

 known to the mind by the presence of its cor- 

 responding image in the sensoriura.* 



These are indeed curious thoughts, but there 

 are yet innumerable others equally wonderful. 

 We know nothing for instance of those vehicles 

 of the knowledge of the qualities of bodies called 

 light and sound, odours, and so on. What for 

 example is the source of light ? And considering 

 that it is wasted from every point of the sun's 

 surface, and that perpetually, if it be anything 

 but vibration, where is its destiny, and by what 

 means is it gathered again into an available focus ? 

 Theories without end are formed, and all of them 

 as quickly disappear ! all show how curious man 

 is to find out that which he can never know on 

 earth ; and though a new hypothesis is now and 

 then made, which for a time shines like a torch 

 from heaven, it soon ends in smoke, or is put 

 out by the interference of some contradictory 

 discovery. 



[ have descanted now on the question, what 

 are the stars in distance and magnitude, in order 



* The reader will observe, that by the mind I mean the 

 individual capacity for sensation, which we also call the self, and 

 which when spoken of with reference to its existence on earth, 

 is called Mind, but when considered in relation to its future state, 

 is called the Soul : a principle which is distinct both from the 

 external Objects that it perceives, as well as from the Sensorium 

 or organised body in which it perceives them. It is a gift of God 

 at our creation, and will last eternally when the body is no more. 



