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as, by a popular perversion the exact converse of this, 

 the word Mind is withdrawn from its rightful gene- 

 rality of signification, and restricted to the intellect. 

 The still greater perversion by which Feeling is some- 

 times confined not only to bodily sensations, but to 

 the sensations of a single sense, that of touch, needs 

 not be more particularly adverted to. 



Feeling, in the proper sense of the term, is a 

 genus, of which Sensation, Emotion, and Thought, are 

 subordinate species. Under the word Thought is here 

 to be included whatever we are internally conscious of 

 when we are said to think ; from the consciousness 

 we have when we think of a red colour without hav- 

 ing it before our eyes, to the most recondite thoughts 

 of a philosopher or poet. Be it remembered, how- 

 ever, that by a thought is to be understood what 

 passes in the mind itself, and not any object external 

 to the mind, which the person is commonly said to be 

 thinking of. He may be thinking of the sun, or of 

 God, but the sun and God are not thoughts ; his 

 mental image, however, of the sun, and his idea of 

 God, are thoughts ; states of his mind, not of the 

 objects themselves : and so also is his belief of the 

 existence of the sun, or of God ; or his disbelief, if the 

 case be so. Even imaginary objects, (which are said 

 to exist only in our ideas,) are to be distinguished 

 from our ideas of them. I may think of a hobgoblin, 

 as I may think of the loaf which was eaten yesterday, 

 or of the flower which will bloom to-morrow. But 

 the hobgoblin which never existed is not the same 

 thing with my idea of a hobgoblin, any more than the 

 loaf which once existed is the same thing with my 

 idea of a loaf, or the flower which does not yet exist, 

 but which will exist, is the same with my idea of a 

 flower. They are all, not thoughts, but objects of 



