CH. III.] ACTIONS OF FORESEEINGS. 121 



aud calms me, without my knowing why, some subordinate 

 ideas, which I cannot remember, must be the cause." When 

 the person whose figure we have seen, actually appears also, no 

 other action results than as stated above; we become pale as 

 before, but now we know why. Hence it appears, that the 

 memory itself [das eigentliche Erinnern] belongs to that class 

 of conceptions, the sentient actions of which are limited to the 

 brain, and excite only material ideas of another kind ; whereas 

 the conceptions which are remembered develope their usual 

 actions externally to the brain in the mechanical machines. 



Actions of the Sensational Foreseeings on the Mechanical 

 Machines through the Nerves. 



239. The sensational foreseeings are future external sensa- 

 tions, to which the external impression must supply what con- 

 stitutes the element of external sensations (73). In other 

 words, a number of sub-impressions of the external sensation 

 are wanting in every sensational foreseeing, the conception of 

 which must be induced by the external impression, and without 

 which the mind does not conceive them. The material idea 

 excited in the brain by the external impression contains many 

 more sub-impressions, and is far more complete than that which 

 the mind can impress spontaneously on the brain, without the 

 aid of the external impression (53, 73) ; and as foreseeings are 

 only imperfect external sensations, more imperfect, indeed, 

 than imaginations (73), the material ideas of the foreseeing force 

 are only portions of the material external sensations, which the 

 accession of the external impression alone can render complete 

 and perfect. Both are conceptions and material ideas of the 

 same kind, but the foreseeings are much more feeble and im- 

 perfect (73). 



240, i. The material ideas of foreseeings arise at the origins 

 of the same nerves, as those of the foreseen sensations them- 

 selves (73, 124) : consequently, their sentient actions, external 

 to the brain, must be similar (129, 130.) 



ii. Foreseeings cause the same kind of impressions (73, 121) 

 in these cerebral origins of the nerves as the foreseen sen- 

 sations, consequently their sentient actions in the mechanical 

 machines must be similar to those of the future sensations. 



