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further — a classification which, while suggested by certain 

 fundamental traits reached without a very lengthened in- 

 quiry, is yet, we believe, in harmony with that disclosed by 

 detailed analysis. 



Leaving out of view the Will, which is a simple homo- 

 geneous mental state, forming the link between feeling 

 and action, and not admitting of subdivisions ; our states oi 

 consciousness fall into two great classes — Cognitions and 

 Feelings. 



Cognitions, or those modes of mind in which we are 

 occupied with the relations that subsist among our feelings, 

 are divisible into four great sub-classes. 



Presentative cognitions / or those in which conscious- 

 ness is occupied in localizing a sensation impressed on the 

 organism — occupied, that is, with the relation between this 

 presented mental state and those other presented mental 

 states which make up our consciousness of the part affected: 

 as when we cut ourselves. 



Presentative-represe7itative cognitions j or those in 

 which consciousness is occupied with the relation between 

 a sensation or group of sensations and the representa- 

 tions of those various other sensations that accompany it 

 in experience. This is what we commonly call perception 

 — an act in which, along with certain impressions presented 

 to consciousness, there arise in consciousness the ideas of 

 certain other impressions ordinarily connected with the 

 presented ones : as when its visible form and colour, 

 lead us to mentally endow an orange with all its other 

 attributes. 



Representative cognitio7is ; or those in which conscious- 

 ness is occupied with the relations among ideas or repre- 

 sented sensations : as in all acts of recollection. 



lie -representative cognitions j or those in which the 

 occupation of consciousness is not by representation of 

 special relations, that have before been presented to con 



