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distinction to " sensations " such pure ideas occur- 

 ring in response to a subjective impulse. 



On the other hand, there is a sense in which the 

 Presentment is, if not real, at least actual and 

 objective. 



So far as we know, Intelligence never develops 

 except in conjunction with an organism that is, in 

 vital relation with physical Energy. My Present- 

 ment is constituted by the occurrence and depends 

 upon the continuance of the transmutations or 

 operations proceeding at the related point in the 

 energetic system. Even pure ideas, though sub- 

 jective not only in regard to aspect but in regard 

 to their origin, are objective in respect that they 

 also consist in an energetic transmutation. 



Herein lies the germ of truth to be discovered 

 even in the unintelligent dogmatism of those philo- 

 sophers who assert the absolute Reality of my Pre- 

 sentment, as such not merely its actuality. It is 

 comparatively seldom, however, either in Science or 

 Philosophy, that we meet a thinker prepared to go 

 as far as that. Most take refuge in a distinction 

 between primary and secondary qualities of bodies, 

 classing my sensations as non-resembling secondary 

 qualities, which they admit cannot be conceived 

 to exist without the mind in the form in which they 

 make up my Presentment, but reserving five or six 



