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connection these are figurative) my sentience and 

 intelligence are developed. 



My whole Presentment is, therefore, in one sense 

 subjective, or, as some would say, ideal. For me, my 

 Presentment is the impression produced on, the 

 condition established in, my Consciousness in virtue 

 of what is going on at this so - called point of 

 contact. 



What we mean, therefore, by the subjectivity 

 or ideality of the Presentment is the aspect of 

 energetic transmutations when viewed as affecting 

 my Consciousness in contrast with their obverse 

 aspect when viewed as transmutations in the 

 objective system. As my Presentment, they are 

 all subjective or ideal, and it is in this reference that 

 Berkeley and Hume, for instance, speak of ideas of 

 sense, such as the colour blue, the heat of the fire, 

 the pain of a blow. These, constituting the bulk 

 of the Presentment, they distinguish from what 

 Berkeley called ideas of the imagination those 

 stimulated or originated, or, as he said, " excited," 

 by the intelligence itself. Whilst he contended 

 that both classes are ideal or subjective, in respect 

 that they are constituents of the Presentment, the 

 latter have an additional title to subjectivity in 

 respect of their origin, and constitute what are 

 called " ideas " when the word is used in contra- 



