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grounded upon some fact, or phenomenon, that is, 

 upon some series of sensations or states of conscious- 

 ness, more or less complicated. The third species 

 of attribute, Quantity, is also manifestly grounded 

 upon something in our sensations or states of feel- 

 ing, since there is an indubitable difference in the 

 sensations excited by a larger and a smaller bulk, 

 or by a greater or a less degree of intensity, in any 

 object of sen^e^drr: p? .conscionshess. All attributes, 

 therefore, are tp us.nptjiing ,byt Cither our sensations 

 and other spates'. if> i-S'elirig;', or* sJdzAething inextricably 

 involved therein; and to this even the peculiar and 

 simple relations just adverted to are not exceptions. 

 Those peculiar relations, however, are so important, 

 and, even if they might in strictness be classed among 

 our states of consciousness, are so fundamentally 

 distinct from any other of those states, that it would 

 be a vain subtlety to confound them under that 

 common head, and it is necessary that they should be 

 classed apart. 



As the result, therefore, of our analysis, we obtain 

 the following as an enumeration and classification of 

 all Nameable Things : 



1st. Feelings, or States of Consciousness. 



2nd. The Minds which experience those feelings. 



3rd. The Bodies, or external objects, which excite 

 certain of those feelings, together with the powers or 

 properties whereby they excite them ; these last being 

 included rather in compliance with common opinion, 

 and because their existence is taken for granted in the 

 common language from which I cannot prudently 

 deviate, than because the recognition of such powers 

 or properties as real existences appears to me war- 

 ranted by a sound philosophy. 



4th, and last. The Successions and Co-existences, 



